On 10/09/2010 11:52 AM, Rod McCown wrote:
Already done that, and can build and save partitions, freezes when
formatting filesystems. I just successfully loaded Mandrake 8.1 a couple of
days ago, so I'm pretty sure that the hardware is ok. I'm downloading
Fedora 10 right now to see if maybe it will load.
Rod McCown><>
UNIX Senior Systems Admin.
Fishermen Chapter
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817-395-3029
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"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
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Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On 10/09/2010 11:23 AM, Rod McCown wrote:
> Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and
> creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
> Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic
> partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
>
> Rod McCown><>
> UNIX Senior Systems Admin.
> Fishermen Chapter
> Christian Motorcyclist Association
> 817-395-3029
> rodmccown(a)aircanopy.net
>
> "UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
>
Can you boot the F13 dvd in rescue mode?
Sure, it will not find an installation, that's OK.
You will get a shell.
From the shell see if you can use either parted
or fdisk and see if they freeze.
If so, you might have some HD hardware or connector problem.
When you boot the DVD for installing, do you let it
check the media for sanity? There might be some
bad spots on the media. It has happened to me a few times.