During a time of great evil, 09:56 AM 30-9-02 -0700, shane was arrested for
treason by saying:
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>On Sunday 29 September 2002 9:15 pm, The Antiwesley did speak unto the
>huddled masses, saying:
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> > I just joined the group in the hopes that someone will have an answer for
> > me... I'm installing 9.0 and every time I try, it freezes somewhere in
> > the install process, just before it's time to pick out
> > my root password.
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> > It's done this 10 or so times, from everywhere from 15 minutes to 10
> > seconds complete.
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>if you have an old cd drive you are doing the install with, it may not be
>reading the final few packages. in the install hit ctr-alt-f3 (maybe f4,
>not sure) and see what packages it is trying. for me it was xwpic, xmovie,
>ytalk and yudit. start the install again but be sure those are not
>selected. zsh and xmms may also be problems, might want to uncheck them.
>install should proceed fine.
>
>now here is the kicker, once installed and booted i was able to install the
>failed packages. guess the generic install driver is not as good as the
>real running driver. ;-)
>
>you might also try reburning cd 2 on a slower speed.
This did the trick. It was choking on ytalk for sure, as xmovie installed
fine.
It's up and running beautifully now, thanks, Shane!
:)
-Kris
"What utter dangerous rubbish. Dangerous because this person has mastered the
tricks of the liberal muck-raker trade; Al Sharpton would be proud of him."
- Bob Bernstein, CrackMonkey, 1/27/02
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