RE: [MLUG] RH 9 installation issues

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It happened again; although I could install the "Personal Desktop" RH 9 completely. It was during the installation of the additional packages that the machine shutdown. Call me stupid, but me thinks there is something about the tetex packages. Of the seven times I have tried to install RH 9 in the last 3 days, on the two occasions that I was staring intently at the monitor as to what was being installed, it has been tetex when my system collapses. Well...I am gonna try once again ...lemme see if removing those packages will be of any help....

And Michael...the only thing suspicious about the logs on other consoles
during installations is this following line:

<4> Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

Does that tell you anything that might indicate a definite hardware issue causing the installation to act the way it is?

Thanks,
Venkat.

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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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