On 10/09/2010 11:23 AM, Rod McCown wrote: > Trying to install Fedora 13. Install freezes while partitioning disk and > creating file systems. Using ATA drives, AMD Duron 1GHz proc, with 1GB RAM. > Tried letting it put it's own layout on there. Tried using just 4 basic > partitions and using ext2. System freezes. Any ideas why? > > Rod McCown><> > UNIX Senior Systems Admin. > Fishermen Chapter > Christian Motorcyclist Association > 817-395-3029 > rodmccown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > "UNIX is user friendly, it just picks it's own friends." > Can you boot the F13 dvd in rescue mode? Sure, it will not find an installation, that's OK. You will get a shell. From the shell see if you can use either parted or fdisk and see if they freeze. If so, you might have some HD hardware or connector problem. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines