[lug] Severe difficulties in installing RedHat 7.1

[John Hernandez]

I saw this problem with Fisher (7.1 Beta) on a machine with a Zip drive.  The solution was to use an update floppy (provided at the RH site) while booting for the install.

-John

Jack Swope wrote:
> 
> I am attempting to install RH 7.1 on a Gateway Select
> Machine.  Let me give you a rundown of the hardware:
> 
> CPU- AMD Athlon 950mhz
> Harddrive- IBM Deskstar-DTLA-307045 ATA/IDE 46.1G,
>     RPM 7200, attached to Promise Ultra ATA Controller
> 
>     or to the primary IDE bus on motherboard
> Memory- 128M
> CDROM- Toshiba DVD-Rom Secondary IDE bus
> Net Card- Intel Pro100+ PCI  adapter
> Video Card- NVidiaRIVA TNT2 Model 64
> Zip Drive- Iomega Zip 250
> Monitor- Gateway EV910B
> Sound Card- Creative SB Live!
> 
> Here's the problem...System hangs while installing RH
> 7.1.  No matter where the hard drive is connected (ATA
> or MB) booting from floppy system reaches "running
> anaconda" and MD recovery thread is activated and
> system unmounts all filesystems mounted and then tells
> me it can be safely rebooted.  I have tried graphic
> install, text install, expert install, and linux dd.
> All hang in approxiamately the same place.  I had
> Caldera Open Linux installed at one time but no
> longer.
> 
> Jack Swope
> 
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