Erylon Hines wrote: > I've installed 8.2 problem free (mostly, more about that in > another post) on 3 of my machines, but it refuses to work > on a fourth. > > This one is a P233, Elitegroup P6LX-A mobo, 288 megs of > ram, onboard Adaptec 78xx scsi (controlling both 50 pin > wide and 68 pin ultra-wide connectors), 9 gig Seagate 50 > pin scsi drive, generic atapi 48X cd-rom, linksys > ethernet, Voodoo vid card, sb16 card, and serial modem. > The mobo also has a built-in (but unused) Adaptec RAIDport > extension slot. As near as I can tell, my atapi cd appears > to be detected and the install starts, but then bogs down. > I've tried 3 times, and only once -- after 7 hours! -- did > the install appear to complete, but then an error message > popped up "some packages failed to install", then the > initial boot failed, completely, with no recovery possible. > I initially suspected a bad cd, but the set worked fine > with my other machines. Then possibly a bad cd drive, but > I swapped drives and used the suspected bad one to install > on another machine and it worked. > > 8.0 works fine on this machine, and I re-installed and am > running it, so the problem is related only to 8.2. > > Any ideas? > > eryl
Erylon....have you tried booting with cd2, where there are 3 alternate install kernels available? -- Alan
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