John Austin wrote: >> >> I've had occasional problems installing Windows XP >> >> and other Linux distributions like SuSE, >> >> but I've had a disproportionate number of problems with anaconda, >> >> on both 32- and 64-bit machines. >> >> > Does it happen if you install in text mode? >> >> That's a very good idea, thank you. >> I haven't tried installing on this machine in text mode. >> >> Actually, the point at which the machine hung - >> during installation of a package - >> doesn't seem to gel with a video error, >> but I shall try installation in text mode next. > Are we talking i386 or x86_64 ? x86_64 > I have clean install of FC6 i386 on Athlon64 3200+ > About 20mins for FULL install In the end, my third text install with no packages got through the 5 minutes required without hanging, since when I have been running "yum groupinstall" on all the groups I need. On one of the failed text installs I pressed SysCtl and saw that the failure actually occurred while running selinux code. But that is probably not significant. My main suspect is the kernel that came with the distribution, which was replaced during "yum upgrade". I'd certainly be interested to know if anyone else has had similar problems running a Fedora x86_64 distribution on an AMD Athlon64 3200+ machine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
