[CLUE-Tech] red hat install freezes

[Jason S. Friedman]

Strange problem here.

I have a 400Mhz PII with 6.5G drive and 256MB of RAM.  It has Win98 on it.  I 
used FIPS to split the drive in half -- worked beautifully, Windows still 
"works".

I tried installing Red Hat 7.3 from CD.  This is the same set of 3 CDs I used 
to successfully do a full install on another box.

I partitioned the remaining space on the hard drive into 256MB swap, 48MB 
/boot, and the remainder (~3GB) into /.  I answered all the questions 
(selecting the workstation option), and the installation begins, but it 
hangs.  Sometimes it hangs at the "installing image phase".  Sometimes it 
hangs in the middle of installing a package.  One time I made it all the way 
to the insertion of the second disk, but it hung shortly thereafter.  I have 
tried checking the drives for bad sectors, and tried without the check.  
After 10 tries and failures, I'm about to give up, but thought I might 
solicit some feedback first.