[ale] RH 7.3 install locks up :(

[Matt Smith]

The RH install has multiple terminals that are used - you can switch between
them with the ALT-1,2,3,4.. or is it ALT-SHIFT-1,2,3,4.. I forget...  if
you're doing a graphical install, the xwindows session is usually #8.

One of those has some text output of what it's actually doing - it might
provide an informative error message.


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:26 AM
To: ALE
Subject: [ale] RH 7.3 install locks up :(


I'm doing my first ever install on an amd machine, and have run into a 
problem.  K6 500 with 128mb ram.  Anyway, it get's through installing 
all the apps and I get a window that says, (paraphrased, sorry) 
something to the effect:  post installation configuration, with a 
progress bar that's about 3/4 complete.  It just sits there.  keyboard 
caps light will toggle, but cntrl-alt-del does nothing.  This has 
happened twice on the same machine over two different attempts.  One, I 
left overnight.

More info that might be necessary.  Currently has win98 installed, so 
I'm trying to make it a dual-boot.  I used partition magic to create the 
space for Linux.  I tried fips at first, but it complained that the last 
  cylinder of the drive was not empty.  When I fdisked this thing, it 
complained that the existing partitions did not sit on proper 
boundaries, that this may or may not be a problem. I let it 
autopartition and it came up with some wierd partitions.  It created 
partitions between all the others that showed the same start/stop and 
size of zero. ???  Also, it showed a small 7 mb section of empty space 
at the end of the drive.  Now of course, windows fdisk didn't show any 
of this stuff.  Basically showed me 4 partitions:

1 linux boot
2. linux root
3. fat
4. extended linux swap

Any ideas why this thing's locking up on me????

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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