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Red hat 8.0 install hangs

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Name: Dave
Date: January 3, 2003 at 12:53:42 Pacific
OS: Red Hat 8.0
CPU/Ram: AMD-K6-450MHz/256Mb
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Red hat 8.0 install hangs during installation on my AMD-K6-450MHz but is successful on my pII-266MHz. Obviously, I would prefer to use the faster K6 computer. I has hung up on me at approximately the same place three times in succession - at the time that it is trying to copy the image to the hard drive. The very AMD-K6 runs W98 without a problem. Any advice chaps?



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Name: Matt
Date: January 3, 2003 at 15:19:55 Pacific
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Well...try another Distro? Mandrake is Excellent. And very close in flavor to redhat.


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Name: smartes
Date: January 7, 2003 at 09:25:03 Pacific
Reply:

I had the similar problems during install. You have to pass kernel options at the boot: prompt to prevent hanging
example:

boot: linux pci=off nomce

Depends what error message you got prior to hanging


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Response Number 3
Name: Dave
Date: January 7, 2003 at 18:52:05 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks smartes,
I'll try that. Thing is, I didn't get an error message - it just locked my mouse up and I had to hard power off.


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