Re: 6.0

[Jamie McCarthy <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

annette@net-link.net (Alan DeJong) writes:

> > You said it worked once before, right?  If so, it sounds like a
> > bad CD or a bad drive.  Can you read other CD's in that drive? Can
> > you read the Redhat CD on a different computer?
> 
> right, it DID work before..  the bad thing is, the drive wont work
> under windows. It used to, but the driver got all screwed up when i
> had to reinstall 98... so it would only run under linux.. and not it
> seems not even to do that..  i have 2 cd-rom drives, but the dvd one
> hardly ever works anyway.. so i guess i will drive up there tomorrow
> and get a new cd...  i dont see how it would just quit like that
> though..

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.

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.

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