Re: installation freezes

["Chris Austin" <caustin pinc com>]

I had, what sounds, to be the same problem while installing 4.2.  It
happened to me
twice in the exact same spot while installing an XFree rpm.  Oddly enough
the only
thing I did to get it moving again was switch to another VT, ALT-F2 or
ALT-F3 and
execute a mount or fdisk command and it started moving again.

Chris

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> From: Scott. <scottf scs unr edu>
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com
> Cc: scottf unr edu
> Subject: installation freezes
> Date: Monday, July 07, 1997 10:28 AM
> 
> 
> hey there... quick question:
> 
> i am installing Redhat Linux 4.2 from an IDE hard drive...
> 
> here is my hardware setup:
> 
> 	540M Win95 drive
> 	850M drive
> 		409M of it partitioned to Win95
> 		404M of it partitioned to Linux
> 
> 	* there is no swap partition
> 
> i made the boot disk and supplemental disk and they work fine.. i think
> 
> i get a couple errors:    indexhtml line 537 dne
> i get that error a couple times with the numbers being different each
> time..
> 
> then, when the rpms are actually being installed (red bars moving to say
> it's installing), it all freezes at just about 4Megs.. it just sits
> there... i let it sit there for just about an hour and nothing
happened...
> 
> sooo... my question: anyone else have this problem? or anyone have a
> solution?
> 
> again, i have no swap partition  set up, so could that be the problem? i
> installed 3.0.3 before and that ran fine with no swap... (i'm not
> upgrading... i'm reinstalling after a format to clear up space)...
> 
> anyways, thanx.. :)
> 
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