On Tuesday 05 February 2002 05:47, John Cichy wrote: > Hello all, > > I am attempting to install LM8.1 from an ISO image I burnt. > > System specs: > AMD K6/3 450 > 768meg RAM (ran memtest86 for >24hrs with no errors) > ATI Mach32 ISA (swapped video after failure to ATI Radion w/same result) > AHA-2940U2W scsi adaptor > 3 9gig 10,000rpm WD drives > > Problem: > Install program boots (from CD-ROM) and makes it through initial setup and > package selection. As it starts coping/loading software the system hangs. I > have done this MANY times, and the hang occurs while loading different > package each time, so I have been unable to attribute it to a particular > package. > > The install images have been used to install a 950Athlon (twice), and an > AMD K6/2 300 with no problems. The machine was running RH7.0 (for almost a > year with no problems). > > This machine will be a server, and I don't need X, so video should not be > an issue. I have run the install in both GUI and TEXT mode, with same > results (although TEXT did freeze once while it was trying to see what > packages were available). > > Any suggestions would be appreciated... > > John
Firstly, I don't exactly know why, what or how but here goes... The problem could be with your memory (?). I had the same thing happen a few months back with about 12-15 attempts at installing LM8.1. Sometimes it would start to copy files then hang with no error messages, other times it kept giving me errors about ldconfig after selecting the packages, and during one text install the system froze with an error message that was unreadable (words spread randomly on the screen) but I noticed one of the words was memory. At the time I had recently increased my ram from 128 to 1152 MB so I wondered whether I had bought dud ram. My cpu is also AMD (Athlon tbird 1.0 GHz). Anyway, I thought I'd read something about (most likely I just made it up or dreamed it) the system keeping things (don't ask me what) going on a reboot instead of releasing/flushing everything like it supposedly does on shutdown and cold boot. So out of sheer desperation I shut down the computer and left it for 5 mins before starting it and trying to install again. Voila! No more install problems. Since then I have reinstalled several times without a hitch and each time I have shutdown the computer and left it for a while before starting it again. Might work on your pc??? BTW, I later ran memtest which gave 0 errors so.... ? Oh, and Civileme has mentioned in a post to this list this type of problem sometimes indicates that its your cdrom thats the problem. Perhaps you could search the list archives. Good luck skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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