[CLUE-Tech] red hat install freezes

[David Eckhardt]

I have had problems before installing 7.3 and 8.0.  The problem was with bad
CDs.  Boot CD1 and type: linux mediacheck.  This will test each CD.  You
might have to reburn a copy.

Regards,
David W. Eckhardt
http://www.x-tratech.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Hellman" <kehellman at yahoo.com>
To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] red hat install freezes


> On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:43:44PM +0000, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Simply because you've installed another machine with a set of CDs does
> not necessarily mean the CDs are 100% perfect.  It just means you didn't
> hit the bad bit when installing.  I would:
>
> On a known good machine, I would mount each cd, then run
> find /path/to/cd -type f |xargs cat >/dev/null
> You may find that one of your CDs errors in this phase.  I ran into this
> situation just a couple months ago when installing a RH 7.3 box.
>
> If all the CDs pass, then I would be suspicious of the CD ROM in the
> new target machine.  If your comfortable with it, do the following:
>
> Boot RH install, bail to rescue system, do the same test as above with
> each CD-ROM (IIRC, RH rescue runs from RAM only, CD doesn't need to be
> mounted).
>
> If all else fails, you can set the CDs up on another boxen (notebook
> maybe?) and do an ftp install to the troublesome machine.
>
> Keith
>
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