Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB RAM. Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
Rod McCown ><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
On 10/09/2010 11:23 AM, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB RAM. Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
Can you boot the F13 dvd in rescue mode? Sure, it will not find an installation, that's OK. You will get a shell.
From the shell see if you can use either parted or fdisk and see if they freeze. If so, you might have some HD hardware or connector problem.
Already done that, and can build and save partitions, freezes when formatting filesystems. I just successfully loaded Mandrake 8.1 a couple of days ago, so I'm pretty sure that the hardware is ok. I'm downloading Fedora 10 right now to see if maybe it will load.
Rod McCown ><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 1:42 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On 10/09/2010 11:23 AM, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
Can you boot the F13 dvd in rescue mode? Sure, it will not find an installation, that's OK. You will get a shell.
From the shell see if you can use either parted or fdisk and see if they freeze. If so, you might have some HD hardware or connector problem.
On 10/09/2010 11:52 AM, Rod McCown wrote:
Already done that, and can build and save partitions, freezes when formatting filesystems. I just successfully loaded Mandrake 8.1 a couple of days ago, so I'm pretty sure that the hardware is ok. I'm downloading Fedora 10 right now to see if maybe it will load.
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 1:42 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On 10/09/2010 11:23 AM, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
Can you boot the F13 dvd in rescue mode? Sure, it will not find an installation, that's OK. You will get a shell.
From the shell see if you can use either parted or fdisk and see if they freeze. If so, you might have some HD hardware or connector problem.
When you boot the DVD for installing, do you let it check the media for sanity? There might be some bad spots on the media. It has happened to me a few times.
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB RAM. Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB RAM. Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
Using an ATI Rage, AGP card. There is an install option to use different video drivers. I'll give that a shot before I give up and try version 10. Thanks
Rod McCown ><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bair Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:44 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
On 10/09/2010 04:39 PM, Rod McCown wrote:
Using an ATI Rage, AGP card. There is an install option to use different video drivers. I'll give that a shot before I give up and try version 10. Thanks
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bair Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:44 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
Hi Rod, before you give up, did you get my post re: letting Anaconda check the media before proceeding with install?
JD, Yep, I saw that and gave it a try and it said there was an error, so I cleaned the disk real good and then it was showed good. I also downloaded the checksum file and it showed correct on all 5 install disk. I gave up for the night to watch LSU-Florida. Try it again in the morning. Thanks all.
Rod McCown ><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 6:55 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On 10/09/2010 04:39 PM, Rod McCown wrote:
Using an ATI Rage, AGP card. There is an install option to use different video drivers. I'll give that a shot before I give up and try version 10. Thanks
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bair Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:44 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
Hi Rod, before you give up, did you get my post re: letting Anaconda check the media before proceeding with install?
On 10/09/2010 08:22 PM, Rod McCown wrote:
JD, Yep, I saw that and gave it a try and it said there was an error, so I cleaned the disk real good and then it was showed good. I also downloaded the checksum file and it showed correct on all 5 install disk. I gave up for the night to watch LSU-Florida. Try it again in the morning. Thanks all.
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 6:55 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On 10/09/2010 04:39 PM, Rod McCown wrote:
Using an ATI Rage, AGP card. There is an install option to use different video drivers. I'll give that a shot before I give up and try version 10. Thanks
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bair Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:44 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
Hi Rod, before you give up, did you get my post re: letting Anaconda check the media before proceeding with install?
To save yourself the pain of inserting disc after disk, why not download the DVD iso and burn it? Some advice about burning data iso's: 1. Do not use media that is made for audio recording purposes. There are media that are better suited to data. 2. when burning, set the drive speed to a low value. This greatly reduces the likelihood of a bad burn.
Good luck,
JD
Just an FYI. Apparently a 1GHz AMD Duron is not in the same class processor as an Intel PII.( Minimum requirements for F-13 are PII w/ 384 MB of RAM) I tried installing all of the way back to Fedora 8 with no luck. It just kept stalling. I have successfully installed an old Mandrake 8.2 on it and it runs great. Will be upgrading to Mandrake 10.2 tomorrow. I just now got Fedora 10 installed on my old Dell laptop with a 750MHz PIII. I have concluded that Fedora doesn't like some AMD processors. I'm curious to know if anyone else has had problems with older AMD processors.
Rod McCown ><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of JD Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 6:55 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On 10/09/2010 04:39 PM, Rod McCown wrote:
Using an ATI Rage, AGP card. There is an install option to use different video drivers. I'll give that a shot before I give up and try version 10. Thanks
Rod McCown><> UNIX Senior Systems Admin. Fishermen Chapter Christian Motorcyclist Association 817-395-3029 rodmccown@aircanopy.net
"UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends."
-----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Greg Bair Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:44 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install
On Sat, 2010-10-09 at 13:23 -0500, Rod McCown wrote:
Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB
RAM.
Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why?
What kind of graphics card do you have? It might have to do with that. I ran into the same problem with my Intel 855 chipset. This was (sorta) fixed (more like a workaround) in the F14 beta. It just so happened to freeze during the partitioning procedure, but had nothing to do with it.
HTH,
Hi Rod, before you give up, did you get my post re: letting Anaconda check the media before proceeding with install?
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 22:29:13 -0500, Rod wrote:
Just an FYI. Apparently a 1GHz AMD Duron is not in the same class processor as an Intel PII.( Minimum requirements for F-13 are PII w/ 384 MB of RAM) I tried installing all of the way back to Fedora 8 with no luck. It just kept stalling.
Cannot confirm. Fedora up to and including 13 has always worked with an AMD Duron 1.3 GHz (Morgan), though I have never tried it with only a minimum of memory.
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