Re: Red Hat 7.2 install problem

[Diego Zuluaga <dfz101 yahoo com>]

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 --- redhat install list mdsh com escribió: > I have a
Pentium 90 machine from circa 1995 which is
> perfect for my ADSL
> IP tables firewall. It has had RedHat 7.1 on for a
> while but I want to
> upgrade it to RedHat 7.2 as an easy way of getting
> EXT3 (its in a domestic
> situation and there are occasional power outages
> which can be a bitch to
> recover from).
> 
> I usually install from NFS, so I boot with the
> bootnet.img floppy and
> select the appropriate settings for my NFS setup.
> There is some network
> activity and I get the message "Running anaconda -
> please wait..." but
> that is as far as the install gets. The computer is
> completely locked up
> and a power cycle or reset is the only way to
> 'recover'.
> 
> I have also tried installing from CD-ROM and that
> gives exactly the same
> results.
> 
> I know the NFS store and ISO images are OK because
> I've upgraded other
> machines from them. Its just this one old Pentium 90
> which won't play
> ball.
> 
> The box has all SCSI disks which are correctly
> terminated. The box has, in
> the past, been up for a year and a half running
> Oracle 805 and is
> currently up running RH7.1, so I know it is working
> OK, I just can't get
> RH7.2 installer to run properly.
> 
> I looked at the output displayed on the other
> virtual terminals F3 and F4
> during the "Running anaconda - please wait..." stage
> of a text mode
> install.
> 
> The important thing seems to be on F3 where the last
> message is "Looking 
> for USB mouse" which is followed by the machine
> locking up. The thing is,
> there is no USB at all on this ancient machine.
> 
> I guess now I need to know how to stop it looking
> for USB mouses. I would
> be grateful if anyone can offer a clue as to how I
> can cure this problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> A few notes on the box:
> 
> # lspci -vt
> -[00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation 430FX - 82437FX TSC
> [Triton I]
>       +-07.0  Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX ISA
> [Triton I]
>       +-07.1  Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX IDE
> [Triton I]
>       +-0a.0-[01]--+-04.0  Intel Corporation 82557
> [Ethernet Pro 100]
>       |            \-05.0  Intel Corporation 82557
> [Ethernet Pro 100]
>       +-0b.0  Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 2064W
> [Millennium]
>       \-0c.0  Adaptec AHA-294x / AIC-7871
> 
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 5
> model           : 2
> model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
> stepping        : 5
> cpu MHz         : 89.815
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : yes
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
> bogomips        : 178.99
> 
> # cat /proc/meminfo 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers: 
> cached:
> Mem:  80277504 78213120  2064384        0 29892608
> 18710528
> Swap: 134193152    81920 134111232
> MemTotal:        78396 kB
> MemFree:          2016 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:         29192 kB
> Cached:          18272 kB
> Active:          46308 kB
> Inact_dirty:       108 kB
> Inact_clean:      1048 kB
> Inact_target:      112 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:        78396 kB
> LowFree:          2016 kB
> SwapTotal:      131048 kB
> SwapFree:       130968 kB
> 
> # mount
> /dev/sda1 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/cww type ext2 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> automount(pid647) on /misc type autofs
> (rw,fd=5,pgrp=647,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
> 
> # df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available
> Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1               888952    546224    297572 
> 65% /
> /dev/sdb1             48078504  44430776   1205448 
> 98% /mnt/cww
> 
> 
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