[Re: [lug] RedHat 6.1 Install (attempt?)]

Justin glowecon at netscape.net
Sat Oct 9 09:57:32 MDT 1999


Gary Hodges <hodges at srrb.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Yea, I remember that from previous installs as well. However, with this one it
took quite a while, I left and watched a whole movie, came back and same
screen  :(

           justin

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