Red Hat 8.0 installation failure

[J. Allen Crider]

I am looking for suggestions on what I need to do to install or upgrade 
to Red Hat 8.0.  I am using CD-Rs burned from downloaded images.  The 
failure occurs fairly quickly after attempting to start Anaconda, in 
either graphics or text mode.
The message (assuming I copied this down correctly) is

Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 639, in ?
         iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes ()
     File "/usr/bin/anaconda/iutil.py", line 420, in makeDriveDeviceNodes
         isys.makeDevInode (drive, "dev/%s" % (drive, ))
     File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 265, in makeDevInode
         _isys.mkdevinode (name, fn)
SystemError: (2; 'No such file or directory')

I am currently running Red Hat 7.3 on this system.  The only thing that 
I consider unusual about my hardware is a Promise IDE controller with a 
hard drive as /dev/hde and a CD-RW drive as /dev/hdg.  I installed these 
after installing Red Hat 7.3 and I had to compile a custom kernel from 
the Red Hat sources in order to get these drives to work properly after 
installation, but everything else worked out of the box.

On the off chance that my CDR was corrupted, even though the md5sum on 
the downloaded image was correct and the media check at the beginning of 
the install procedure passed, I downloaded the ISO image of the first 
disc from a second mirror, compared it to the first downloaded image, 
and burned another copy at a slower speed, but I get the same results 
with either disc.

Any suggestions are appreciated.  Thanks.

Allen Crider
Huntsville, AL