Re: Install Hangs??

[Robbie Robinson <robinson mainsrv main nc us>]

Two words Brian, text-based install. I can't explain why but the GUI
hangs, and the text-based install works like a champ. Once installed, you
can fire up the GUI.

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Brian Blater wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to install a new RH 6.2 server on a pentium 166 w/32MB RAM,
> 1.2GB HDD, 2 NE2000 PCI NICs and an S3 Trio 64 PCI video card. I'm
> using the GUI install method. I choose to install it as a server install. I
> configure
> the NICs, it formats the partitions and procedes to install all the
> packages.
> After it installs all the packages I get "performing post install
> configuration..."
> and it just sits there forever (30 mins so far). I can't tell that it is
> doing anything
> at all. I checked the other screens and nothing seems to jump out at me.
> Anybody have any ideas as to what is happening here. I don't recall any
> other
> installs taking this long. This is the second time it has done this on this
> machine.
> The first time I chose to do a custom install and it did the same thing.
> 
> Thanks
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
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