Re: [MLUG] RH 9 installation issues

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Thank you all for your help. I finally have my Linux machine (RH 9.0) up and running. I cannot yet conclude as to why I was having problems, but I am leaning towards what MK suggested.....overheating and autoshutdown-BIOS. And, yes, I excluded all tetex related packages while installing, just in case..;-). I first perfomed a minimal install(personal desktop installation) and then added additional packages after making sure I gave the machine enough time to "cool down". 

And yep....I even got SBC-Yahoo DSL working!!! I had little hope of achieving this, eespecially after another guy who told me that he had struggled with no success. I did struggle too...tried Roaring Penguin's GUI (rp-pppoe-gui) to configure ....It didnt work. I went back to using the command-line configuration tool....worked like a charm.

Thanks again!

- Venkat.


Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

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>> 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?
>> 
>> - Venkat
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>
>Is there any chance that your computer is overheating? Some BIOSes have auto 
>shutdown functions that activate at certain temperature. (I doubt that HP has 
>them in their BIOS, though...)
>
>-- 
>MK
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