Uh oh, trouble installing redhat7

[siduch]

I just installed RedHat7.0 on my comp, which has windows Me on it, and at the last moments of the actual installing (not configuring), an error flashed to the background-screen (textmode install), and was partly covered by a window (normal, asking about x settings or something)..
The parts that were visible:

Device 0x0302 ...(window covered this part)...exceeds 1024...

And, at the beginning, I couldn't start the graphical install with an error "No screens found". This also was a fatal error when trying to startx.

Plus, after booting back to windows, I see that there are no detected cd drives anymore! Windows add/remove hardware cannot even find them. I have a "normal" cd drive, and then a cd-r drive, both of which worked fine before this.

Some system info, if needed: I have one hard drive, about 45gb size. Used partition magic to shrink the only partition there was (it was the very only partition) to about 40gb, leaving 5gb to Linux. Installed using a floppy and 2 redhat cd's (only one was needed). The same method of installing worked fine on my other comp.

Am I in trouble? Any clues how to get everything back as they were?

-siduch

[siduch]

Ok, I got the CD-drives back. Not exactly sure why, but they are back. I ran fdisk /mbr and started windows from a boot disk.

I saw that the "No screens found" error is not unique. And found no real solutions to the problem, on my hardware.

I have NVidia GeForce 2 MX 32, and I have run xf86config, and double-checked the values there.

Is there a certain resolution/color depth that would work? Should I get new drivers? I know very little of linux, and have been bombing the bbs with questions all day long. Sorry, and thanks.

-siduch

[roman]

Slow down hombre. It sounds like their is a lot going on their, so lets fix things one at a time. I have Red Hat 7.0 and a Geforce 2 and I've had some of the same problems when I was figuring out linux intially.
I'd reinstall altogether and then if you have the same problems will take it from their. If you want just email me directly. Some of the solutions could get long winded.