[lug] RedHat 6.1 installation

[Jeff Howell]

Shadow Duff wrote:
> 
> Hello,
>         I am having a problem installing RedHat 6.1. I have installed it many times
> on different machines with no problems at all. However I have run into a BIG
> problem on one machine. I am running the new graphical installation and
> select custom and go through all the steps. It formats the filesystems fine
> and installs the packages ok. But after it finishes it halts. I cannot click
> Hide Help or anything. Sometimes "Performing Post-Install Configuration"
> comes up and somethimes it does not. The system is a Pentium II-400/Pentium
> III-450 with 64/128 megs of ram(I have tried combinations of all of those).
> There is a 4.2g hard drive in it. Intel AGP graphics card. 3Com nic card. I
> don't understand why it wont finish the install. I have previously installed
> 6.1 on the machine and it has worked. But the hard drive became corrupted. I
> have fixed the hard drive and it "should" work. I would greatly appriciate
> it if someone could help me out... thanks.
> 
>                                         Greg

Sounds like your disk is going bad. Have you tried running any utilities against it
to check for bad sectors? Also a low level format probably wouldn't hurt either.
Some BIOSes can do that for ya. If not, there's probably a utility on tucows or a 
similar site.
-- 
 Jeff Howell
 EDS Unix Support
 
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