🚀 go-pugleaf

1) could be a dud CD - rare but a bummer - do you know anyone with
same?

2) CD or CDrom or both might need a clean - how old is CDrom drive?

3) Do other CD's behave (e.g. big transfers like Quake II)?

4) Maybe try a pocket linux installation (e.g. a ram based one like
tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/rb/) which you can then try to check
your linux partitions with...

a) mkdir /mnt/native ; mkdir /mnt/swap
b) edit /etc/fstab using vi
 
/dev/hdc1 (or whatever) /mnt/native ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc2  /mnt/swap swap defaults 0 0

c) mount /mnt/native ; mount /mnt/swap
d) e2fsck etc...

Good luck!

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:21:53 +0800, Rick <NSrick@vianet.net.au> wrote:

>HELP!!!!
>
>I've been up till well after the bewitching hour, two nights in a row,
>and
>still not able to get redhat to run.
>
>It seems to now recognize everything on my system, but, when it starts
>to
>load the system files, the whole system locks up after 20mb has been
>transferred from the CD.
>
>The system is a 75mhs pentium, 2 hdd, 2.1 and a 1.2. The 1.2, (secondary
>
>disk) has been divided into a 256mb, for windows, the rest for Linux.
>The
>Linux part is then further subdivided by the Linux boot system into 96mb
>
>swap, and the rest for the system. (c927mb).
>
>Everything appears to work fine until the system files begin to load.
>After
>20mb is downloaded, everything just locks. Not even the 3 finger salute
>will get out of it. Have to turn the computer off to recover??
>
>Anyway, very tired tonight, so back to windows. Sorry guys. Perhaps
>someone
>has the magic answer?? Perhaps I should give more info, but, I'm not
>able
>to think what.
>
>One thing that does come to mind though, when I've finished partitioning
>
>with the druid, the swap section formats, the native partition doesn't
>seem
>to?? Does this happen before the system files start to download?? Is
>that
>what the lengthy crunching and groaning is about??
>
>Cheers, and thanks for reading.
>Rick
>
>ps - Trying to install from the APC's 'the linus pocket book' cd.
>
>
>Cheers
>Rick
>
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>
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>
>