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Red Hat Install Problem
Name: Ross Date: March 16, 2003 at 12:11:41 Pacific OS: none CPU/Ram: Celeron 500 MHz 256mb
Comment:
I am trying to install Red Hat Linux 8 on my computer and it does everything fine until it gets to formatting the hard drive and which point it freezes. I have a 20 gb Maxtor 531DX hard drive and it's running on a matsonic 7308e motherboard. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks.
Name: Ross Date: March 16, 2003 at 16:18:06 Pacific
Reply:
Sorry, my hard drive is actually a Maxtor 541DX.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: March 17, 2003 at 04:44:30 Pacific
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Have you tried deleting all partitions before installing?
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Response Number 3
Name: Ross Date: March 17, 2003 at 08:52:35 Pacific
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Yes, I have totally deleted all partitions on the hard drive and started fresh. But it still freezes at the same spot, when it's trying to format the hard drive.
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Response Number 4
Name: 3Dave Date: March 18, 2003 at 01:33:19 Pacific
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Have you got something like partition magic? If you do, partition AND format the drive with that and then during setup, select the partitions but choose NOT to format them. This usually gets me around this problem (which I have experienced a couple of times myself).
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