Fedora installation stops during Upgrade and Installing

[Jeff Vian]

Jay wrote:

>Thanks Daniel and Skirmitch Katafrakta for your input.  I have tried 
>installing more than 3 times and it hangs up at different times.  Another 
>questions is; if my HD is bad why can I install RH 9 with no problem but not 
>Fedora?  Any more feed back?
>James
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>On Thursday 19 February 2004 02:34 pm, Skirmitch Katafrakta wrote:
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "James" <masagin at adelphia.net>
>>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:20:53 -0500
>>To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Subject: Fedora installation stops during Upgrade and Installing
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>>>I have a Compaq 4532 which has a 20GB dual boot HD with W98SE, which
>>>works fine using RH9.0.  I am attempting to install Fedora i386 but the
>>>program stops and it will not resume when rebooting with the Fedora CD. 
>>>According to RH 9.0 my computer is i586 (?) , would this matter?   I have
>>>reinstalled RH9.0 and tried using the upgrade method to no avail.  Any
>>>suggestions? Thanks in advance! James
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>>Its not a processor problem couse i have an i686 and i dont have any
>>problems. I have dual boot too but with XP so thats not the problem. The
>>only one problem that would be (i dont find an other one) is that your cd
>>is damaged or u HD is damaged
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I just had a similar problem.  (I did some tweaking in the BIOS and it 
installed OK)

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