Re: 6.0

[Alan DeJong <annette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> A friend of mine had exactly the same symptoms two weeks ago installing
> Red Hat 6.0:  the install would work fine up until the point where the
> blue and red progress bar started crawling across the screen.  At that
> point, it would freeze after a few seconds, when only one or two
> packages had been installed.  He rebooted and tried it several times
> and it always froze at nearly exactly the same point.

same problem i am having!

>
>
> Apparently the cause was his first-generation DVD/CD drive, which he
> bought for $69 at some kind of trade show or something, and which came
> with its own custom card.  Once he unplugged it and plugged in a
> standard IDE CD-ROM, the install went perfectly.
>

well this is a toshiba dvd drive, it came w/ my gateway computer.

>
> It was odd that the DVD worked well enough to get partway through the
> installation process before freezing, but, well, hardware is odd
> sometimes.

I am pretty sure its NOT the media now.. cuz my 5.0 5.2 or 6.0 cds wont
work!  So i am going to unplug my 32x atapi (which is causing the trouble,
and try to install it off my dvd... wish me luck!
-Alan