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I am trying to install RH 6.2 on the WD 12.3GB drive. However, it hangs
during the installation (after the partitions are formatted and progress
dialogs starts).
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> [Ben]
If you're using the graphical install, I suggest that you do not. All
"freezing" problems that I've had with RedHat installations happened with
GUI-based installations; all of them were resolved by going to the
text-based one.
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Well not quite true. If i don't select any packages (no X,
compilers, multimedia, etc) to install, it installs fine.
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> [Ben]
The program that installs RedHat is a huge, complicated thing that goes
into weird contortions once in a while. If you simply cannot manage to
install a full system by using it, install the basic system and whatever
packages are necessary to dial up and do FTP (those should actually be a
part of the basic system, but I'm not certain), and download a copy of
'rpmfind' &lt;<A HREF="http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpmfind/rpmfind.html&gt"
>http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpmfind/rpmfind.html&gt</A>;. This program
will connect to an "RPM server" and download whatever packages you specify,
automatically resolving dependencies in the process. It's a not-quite-as-
powerful knockoff of <A HREF="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</A>'s 'apt' tool, but is actually reasonably mature
and useful.
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Another option is to try installing another distro; I'm a real Debian
zealot, myself. One of the many reasons that I really like it is that
something like the above procedure is <EM>already</EM> one of the standard
installation options: the base system install takes 5-10 minutes, you tell
'apt' which of the many available servers you want to use, and walk away.
'apt' can use FTP, HTTP, local CDs, or packages right off the HD - and you
can mix-and-match sources however you like. Dependency problems? What are
those? &lt;grin&gt;
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When the
installation hangs there is no response to any keypress and it doesn't hang
at the same part of the installation i.e. at the beginning (just starting),
middle, or end (seconds to go).
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> [Ben]
Hm. Have you run a good memory test on the machine? There are plenty of
tools available, but my favorites are the old DOS "burn-in" tool and
Linux's "memtest86" (interestingly enough, "memtest86" doesn't require
Linux: it is a bootable image that can be run from a floppy!) "memtest86"
is a part of the "hwtools" package, at least under Debian. Run either one
of them for a minimum of 24 hours.
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