sorry to butt in the conversation without going through all the facts. when i encountered hangs during install it's anaconda and rpm database corruption. do you see corruptions in the install log?<br><br>if you can't install packages then it will produce the appearance of hanging
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Timothy Murphy</b> <<a href="mailto:tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie">tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<whinge><br>So far I have tried to install FC-6 four times on this machine,<br>and each time it has hung - the last time with 2 minutes to go,<br>while installing kdeaccessibility.<br>To avoid problems with CDs, I'm installing from hard disk.
<br><br>I shall try again, this time installing the absolute minimum -<br>neither Gnome nor KDE, and not even X.<br>If this works, I'll install what I want afterwards with "yum groupinstall".<br>If it doesn't work, I'll probably go over to debian.
<br><br>I really don't think anaconda is a very reliable program.<br>This machine has been running Windows XP and Linux for a couple of years<br>without any problems, so I assume there is nothing wrong with the hardware.<br>
<br>Incidentally, the log that is kept in /root is completely useless.<br>It simply tells me that the last package I was installing<br>was kdeaccessibility, which I already knew.<br></whinge><br><br>--<br>Timothy Murphy
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