RE: [MLUG] RH 9 installation issues

["Davis, Ryan W. (UMC-STUDENT)" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I concur with Michael. First try using the examine CD Media option at
the beginning of the graphical red hat install. That will tell you if
the CDs got burnt bad. If the machine is having errors or something like
that let us know. Usually when computers start doing things like what
you describe it seems to indicate hardware problems. Its usually known
that if you make a machine do a kernel compile and it fails that usually
indicates hardware problems because kernel compiling is a good stress
test. I've even had computers get flaky when I installed on machines
that had lots of bad disk sectors on the hard drive. Otherwise, Ive
installed Red Hat 9 on many computers and never ran into install
problems that werent hardware related.

-Ryan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 8:23 PM
> To: MLUG Members
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] RH 9 installation issues
> 
> 
> When doing a text mode install try switching consoles (CTRL-ALT-F1, 
> CTRL-ALT-F2, etc) and watching for error messages. If you can spot an 
> error can you let us know what it is saying and maybe we can 
> give some 
> more help?
> 
> I've only seen systems do what you describe when they had 
> something like 
> a bad i/o card or bad memory. Keep an eye open especially for 
> any errors 
> that may mention those. A few i/o errors when dealing with the cd-rom 
> isn't unusual but could be a tip off that something is wrong there.
> 
> Also are you sure it isn't shutting down on purpose? I can't 
> imagine why 
> it would at that point during an install but it's possible. Maybe try 
> doing a lighter install (fewer packages) and if it works add the rest 
> back in from the installation cd's as needed.
> 
> > I have been trying to install RH 9 all weekend. I have a 
> Intel Celeron 
> > 733 MHz HP Pavilion ...Have run RH 7.3/8/Mandrake 8.1 on 
> this machine 
> > over the last 2 years without too many problems. But i am 
> absolutely 
> > clueless about what has been happening with RH 9. I started 
> off with 
> > trying to install using the text mode, and evrythign seems 
> fine until 
> > I choose my packages and it starts installing the packages. 
> And then 
> > after installing a few hundred packages, the machine shuts itself 
> > down! This happened twice in the text mode. It didnt even get to to 
> > the second CD. I had no patience left at that point the 
> night before 
> > last and I tried one last time and chose "All packages". 
> This time it 
> > finished installing the packages on CD 1 and everything was 
> okay for a 
> > while with CD2 and then it happened again. The machine shut itself 
> > down completely!
> > 
> > Last morning I tried again a couple times with text mode. 
> No luck. And 
> > then last evening I tried using the graphical mode and 
> everything seemed peachy ..I could get even to CD 3...but 
> without much luck afterwards. I googled to find similar 
> installation issues but couldnt come across any.
> > 
> > Any suggestions/pointers?
> 
> 
> -- 
> So long and thanks for all the fish.
> 
> Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
> http://kavlon.org
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