[lug] RedHat 6.1 Install (attempt?)

[Gary Hodges]

Not sure if this is relevant or not, but RH (and maybe other dists as
well) can take a long time at one point during the install without
providing any indication that things are still moving along.  If I recall,
its about at the point you seem to be having trouble.  You say the
partitions were formatted OK, but maybe just the swap partitions were
done, and it was doing the ext2 partitions before installing the packages. 

Gary

On 9 Oct 1999, Justin wrote:

> ready for a lot of dbl clicking on that mouse). It was able to format the
> partitions fine but the process hung up on "Preparing to Install Packages",
> I'm pretty sure that's the correct phrase it had. Anyhow, at this point my
> mouse still worked, the display wasn't locked up, I could still toggle the
> 'help' menu, yet nothing was installing. I was only able to try this twice,
> both times it hung up during installing packages. The hard drive I am using is
> brand new (well one failed RH 6.0 install) along w/ an Intel 233mmx chip, I
> don't think hardware is an issue here (maybe it is). Tonight will hold more
> time for testing as I am at work all day today, hopefully things will go more
> smoothly then. 
> 
>                 Justin
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