FC-6 disappointment on AMD Athlon64 3200+ machine

[Philip Prindeville]

That's weird.

I installed FC5 on an Athalon64 2800+ (K8MM-V board based on
an K8M800 chipset)... I was using a Philips IDE DVD-ROM drive,
and it failed in the kdeaccessibility section too.

So I used an external DVD burner drive on USB.  Had to use
the usb-storage drivers.

Worked fine.

-Philip


Kip Thomas wrote:

> 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?
>
> if you can't install packages then it will produce the appearance of
> hanging
>
> On 11/12/06, *Timothy Murphy* <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> <mailto:tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>> wrote:
>
>     <whinge>
>     So far I have tried to install FC-6 four times on this machine,
>     and each time it has hung - the last time with 2 minutes to go,
>     while installing kdeaccessibility.
>     To avoid problems with CDs, I'm installing from hard disk.
>
>     I shall try again, this time installing the absolute minimum -
>     neither Gnome nor KDE, and not even X.
>     If this works, I'll install what I want afterwards with "yum
>     groupinstall".
>     If it doesn't work, I'll probably go over to debian.
>
>     I really don't think anaconda is a very reliable program.
>     This machine has been running Windows XP and Linux for a couple of
>     years
>     without any problems, so I assume there is nothing wrong with the
>     hardware.
>
>     Incidentally, the log that is kept in /root is completely useless.
>     It simply tells me that the last package I was installing
>     was kdeaccessibility, which I already knew.
>     </whinge>
>
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