Intuition and lots of experience tells me it's likely bad RAM. If you have more than one DIMM of RAM, take all but one out...if it still doesn't work, swap the DIMMS until you find a good one.
If it was a bad harddrive it would be likely that you'd get some sort of error message... -Sam On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:11:45PM -0400, Mitch wrote: > Been trying to install RH 7.3 on a Maxtor 8.4 gb drive model 88400D8. I > get as far as the "Installing Packages" screen and the > "Formatting/Filesystem box pops up and fills with only 1 grey square and > then the install just stops. The hard drive is okay as it was > previously running Lycoris Desktop/LX in the same PC and I also ran > MaxBlast to verify the hard drive is okay. I called Maxtor but they > were no help..mumbled that Linux not officially supported but that it > should work. I successfully swapped in a different hard drive (Maxtor > 20.4 gb) and had no problems with Formatting/Install. > > > > I would really like to get RH 7.3 installed on this drive and would > appreciate any suggestions. Just out of curiosity I will download > Mandrake and/or SuSe later today and try to install them on this drive > as Lycoris installed and ran with no trouble. > > > > Mitch > > > > > -- Sam Ockman, Chairman and CEO Tel: 415-358-2600 Fax: 415-896-6742 Toll Free: 888-PENGUIN PENGUIN COMPUTING - Simplifying the Solution Process [tm] www.penguincomputing.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
