Anaconda crashes at random places during install

[Josh Burks]

Alan,

Thanks for your help.
I grabed the iso from the site, burned the cd, and found 10 errors in 5
passes. Swapped the memory with a single 256 MB stick, and found no errors
in 6 passes.
Anaconda still crashes when it tries to run X, but the text based install
ran without flaw. After installed, I stuck my NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 and X
found the card and let me configure it. Everything seems great. Now onward
with the MythTV install....

Thanks again,

Josh

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan" <alan at clueserver.org>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: Anaconda crashes at random places during install


> Have you run memtest86 on the system to see if the memory is good?
> http://www.memtest86.com/
>
> When I have had random crashes of the type you have described, it has
> almost always been memory.  (The exception has been a flaky
> motherboard.)
>
>
> On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:35, Josh Burks wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to build a MythTV box, and I found a really nice install
> > guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/. My problem is when I try to
> > install Fedora Core 1, the install crashes right after Anaconda tries
> > to start X. I get "install exited abnormally" .... "now safe to
> > reboot". So I tried a text based install. This worked fine until I hit
> > the "Reading Package Information" screen right before you get to pick
> > your packages. Then I got the "install exited abnormally" message
> > again. This happened 3 times before I started looking into hardware
> > and media checks. My cd's check out OK. Since then, the install likes
> > to crash in various places, e.g. before you partition the drives, set
> > up networking, etc. etc. I tried to install RedHat 9, and it does some
> > of the similar things Fedora does.
> >
> > I'm wondering if my motherboard is at fault, because this is the only
> > hardware I haven't swaped out.
> >
> > Specs on the system:
> > MSI 845GV (MS-6714) Motherboard, no AGP slot
> > 512 MB DDR
> > P4 1.7 GHZ 400 MHZ FSB
> > No other cards in any of the PCI slots yet.
> > No Floppy, Asus 52x CD-ROM
> > Seagate 40 GB Barracuda HD
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any thoughts or ideas,
> >
> > Josh Burks
> >
> -- 
> Alan <alan at clueserver.org>
>
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