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Hello,

I've got a new(er) machine that I want to install Linux onto. The machine
is a Celeron 1.7GHz.

When I run the RedHat setup, I configure the basic stuff, like timezone,
root password, and a couple of user accounts. Then it goes to the
"Installing Packages" screen, and just hangs. It shows 0 packages for the
entire list, although it never even asked me which packages I wanted to
install.

I've tried installing via GUI setup and text setup, and both have a similar
problem, although I don't get as far in the text setup.

When I rebooted the machine, it still had Windows XP on it...I thought Linux
was supposed to wipe out all the data on the HD? Apparently it never did
that either.

What is wrong? How do I solve this problem?

- Dennis

Dennis Jones <djones@nospam.com> wrote:
> Hello,

> I've got a new(er) machine that I want to install Linux onto. The machine
> is a Celeron 1.7GHz.

[..]

> What is wrong? How do I solve this problem?

You are using a pretty old distro on quite recent hw, it's a wonder
that you get this far at all. I'd highly recommend a newer version.
AFAIK RH 9.0 is the latest.

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Dennis Jones wrote:

> I've got a new(er) machine that I want to install Linux onto.

.... get a newer distro
..
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jones" <djones@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:25 PM
Subject: RedHat Linux 6.1 setup hangs

Thanks for your replies.

Hmmm, getting a new distribution...that's what I was afraid of! I'm pretty
comfortable with 6.1, and I understand I'll have to change some things to
get CVS to work in Linux 7.0 or above, which means figuring it out all over
again...but if that's what I have to do, then I guess I'll have to do it!

If I still have trouble with a newer version, I'll post again!

Thanks,

- Dennis

FWIW, I tried installing FreeBSD too (the latest version available via ftp
install -- Gee, why doesn't Linux offer this capability?), and it crashed
with a signal 11...segmentation fault. I slowed down the memory bus speed,
and got BSD to run. I retried installing Linux and it still fails at the
same point. I may retry the FreeBSD installation from scratch.

- Dennis

"Dennis Jones" <djones@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:vpdfg3iaebnj53@corp.supernews.com...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Jones" <djones@nospam.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:25 PM
> Subject: RedHat Linux 6.1 setup hangs
>
> Thanks for your replies.
>
> Hmmm, getting a new distribution...that's what I was afraid of! I'm
pretty
> comfortable with 6.1, and I understand I'll have to change some things to
> get CVS to work in Linux 7.0 or above, which means figuring it out all
over
> again...but if that's what I have to do, then I guess I'll have to do it!
>
> If I still have trouble with a newer version, I'll post again!
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Dennis
>
>

Dennis Jones writes:
> FWIW, I tried installing FreeBSD too (the latest version available via
> ftp install -- Gee, why doesn't Linux offer this capability?)

It does.
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"John Hasler" <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote in message
news:87wuav8vgw.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org...
> Dennis Jones writes:
> > FWIW, I tried installing FreeBSD too (the latest version available via
> > ftp install -- Gee, why doesn't Linux offer this capability?)
>
> It does.

Not a man of many words, are you?

Anyway, my second attempt at FreeBSD installed flawlessly, so it looks like
I've just switched from Linux to become a FreeBSD user.

- Dennis

Dennis Jones <djones@nospam.com> wrote:
> "John Hasler" <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote in message
> news:87wuav8vgw.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org...
> > Dennis Jones writes:
> > > FWIW, I tried installing FreeBSD too (the latest version available via
> > > ftp install -- Gee, why doesn't Linux offer this capability?)
> >
> > It does.

> Not a man of many words, are you?

What's to understand? All the distros that I can think of offhand have
an ftp install and always have (well, slackware didn't use to - nfs
instead - but I don't know about nowadays).. indeed, SuSE offers no
other kind of install.

> Anyway, my second attempt at FreeBSD installed flawlessly, so it looks like
> I've just switched from Linux to become a FreeBSD user.

Fine. But if you can't see the ftp install option under "medium" in the
installs, you have a problem. Indeed a person who HAS TO DO an install,
instead of simply blatting the stuff to disk, putting on a kernel,
pointing the mbr to it and lighting the blue touch paper, has a problem.

Peter

"P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
news:shtanb.bcq.ln@news.it.uc3m.es...

> What's to understand? All the distros that I can think of offhand have
> an ftp install and always have (well, slackware didn't use to - nfs
> instead - but I don't know about nowadays).. indeed, SuSE offers no
> other kind of install.

And if I were a Linux fanatic and knew all about the various distributions
(as you apparently do), then I suppose I would have known that. But I'm
not, and no other information was offered. It would have been *nice* to get
a suggestion of where to look. If the previous poster had said what you
just did, I would have looked for SuSE's install.

>
> > Anyway, my second attempt at FreeBSD installed flawlessly, so it looks
like
> > I've just switched from Linux to become a FreeBSD user.
>
> Fine. But if you can't see the ftp install option under "medium" in the
> installs, you have a problem.

Maybe all the installs *you've* ever seen offers an FTP option, but the
distribution CD *I* have for RH6.1 provides no such animal.

> Indeed a person who HAS TO DO an install,
> instead of simply blatting the stuff to disk, putting on a kernel,
> pointing the mbr to it and lighting the blue touch paper, has a problem.
>
> Peter

Did I give the impression I knew what I was doing? If I did, I wouldn't be
here looking for help, and a set of instructions like that wouldn't help
either.

- Dennis

Dennis Jones <djones@nospam.com> wrote:

> "P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
> news:shtanb.bcq.ln@news.it.uc3m.es...

> > What's to understand? All the distros that I can think of offhand have
> > an ftp install and always have (well, slackware didn't use to - nfs
> > instead - but I don't know about nowadays).. indeed, SuSE offers no
> > other kind of install.

> And if I were a Linux fanatic and knew all about the various distributions
> (as you apparently do), then I suppose I would have known that. But I'm

I know it because when you start an install and select "media type", ftp
is one of the options. Indeed, if you simply read the install
instructions for any distro within reasonable norms, you will find that
ftp installs are catered for, as are installs from cdrom, floppy (well,
no longer nowadays), and other hocus pocus.

> not, and no other information was offered. It would have been *nice* to get
> a suggestion of where to look.

I have no exact idea of where you should look. "Beyond your nose" would
be the only sensible thing I could think of for a thing so straight out
in front of you as that! What did you look at when you booted the
install cdrom or floppy and chose the "install media" from the list
offered?

> If the previous poster had said what you
> just did, I would have looked for SuSE's install.

Why? What's special about SuSE?

> > > Anyway, my second attempt at FreeBSD installed flawlessly, so it looks
> like
> > > I've just switched from Linux to become a FreeBSD user.
> >
> > Fine. But if you can't see the ftp install option under "medium" in the
> > installs, you have a problem.

> Maybe all the installs *you've* ever seen offers an FTP option, but the
> distribution CD *I* have for RH6.1 provides no such animal.

They certainly do. Among other things, I have installed RH (certainly
up to 4.2, I don't recall 6.1) via ftp, and it was an overnight job as
I recall. I still have the cd somewhere, and can check .. well, why
should I. But 6.1 must be about 5 years out of date now! What are you
doing with that? It would never install itself on modern hardware in
any sane way and was bugged to hell and back when it came out! How do
you expect the install rpms for a 5 year old archived distro to still
be on the net somewhere, just for you to download? What kind of
time-warp are you in?

> > Indeed a person who HAS TO DO an install,
> > instead of simply blatting the stuff to disk, putting on a kernel,
> > pointing the mbr to it and lighting the blue touch paper, has a problem.

> Did I give the impression I knew what I was doing? If I did, I wouldn't be
> here looking for help, and a set of instructions like that wouldn't help
> either.

Why not? What's wrong with simply reverse engineering the package
format, zapping it all to disk, then running all the post install
scripts extracted from the packages? Then putting a kernel where you
liked, then pointing your favorite boot loader at it. That's how I
installed debian potato all those years ago!

Peter