RE: [MLUG] RH 9 installation issues

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I will try looking for any error messages by switching consoles as suggested by Michael. (Didnt know I could do that during install...Thanks!) 

And I did check the media before I started installation. It went smooth and there were no problems reported. I am installing off the same discs from which I made MK copies a couple months ago. Don't know if he had problems with the CDs or not....

Will try yet again tonight....

- Venkat


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

>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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