Alan, Thanks for your help. I grabed the iso from the site, burned the cd, and found 10 errors in 5 passes. Swapped the memory with a single 256 MB stick, and found no errors in 6 passes. Anaconda still crashes when it tries to run X, but the text based install ran without flaw. After installed, I stuck my NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 and X found the card and let me configure it. Everything seems great. Now onward with the MythTV install.... Thanks again, Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 12:15 AM Subject: Re: Anaconda crashes at random places during install > Have you run memtest86 on the system to see if the memory is good? > http://www.memtest86.com/ > > When I have had random crashes of the type you have described, it has > almost always been memory. (The exception has been a flaky > motherboard.) > > > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:35, Josh Burks wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to build a MythTV box, and I found a really nice install > > guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/. My problem is when I try to > > install Fedora Core 1, the install crashes right after Anaconda tries > > to start X. I get "install exited abnormally" .... "now safe to > > reboot". So I tried a text based install. This worked fine until I hit > > the "Reading Package Information" screen right before you get to pick > > your packages. Then I got the "install exited abnormally" message > > again. This happened 3 times before I started looking into hardware > > and media checks. My cd's check out OK. Since then, the install likes > > to crash in various places, e.g. before you partition the drives, set > > up networking, etc. etc. I tried to install RedHat 9, and it does some > > of the similar things Fedora does. > > > > I'm wondering if my motherboard is at fault, because this is the only > > hardware I haven't swaped out. > > > > Specs on the system: > > MSI 845GV (MS-6714) Motherboard, no AGP slot > > 512 MB DDR > > P4 1.7 GHZ 400 MHZ FSB > > No other cards in any of the PCI slots yet. > > No Floppy, Asus 52x CD-ROM > > Seagate 40 GB Barracuda HD > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts or ideas, > > > > Josh Burks > > > -- > Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
