Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3 [LWN.net]

Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 3, 2002 17:52 UTC (Mon) by DeletedUser870 ((unknown), #870)
Parent article: Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Right now I am fighting a problem with Red Hat 7.3. One of our customers ordered two 1U rackmounts from Chenbro. All the hardware is quite recent, but the installer crashes at indeterminate times throughout the install process. Its not that special, Pentium 4, 40 gig HDD, 2 gig of ram. SuSE 8.0 installs find on it, so I can't figure out what is wrong, other than maby the Kernel was patched way too much.

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Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 3, 2002 18:25 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] (1 responses)

All the hardware is quite recent, but the installer crashes at indeterminate times throughout the install process.

Any error messages from Anaconda? Did you post this to valhalla-list?

https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/valhalla-list/

Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 3, 2002 20:14 UTC (Mon) by DeletedUser870 ((unknown), #870) [Link]

Nope, no Anaconda messages. It just crashes, and reboots. I tried even regenerating the boot.img disk with a custom disk, and it still crashes.

Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 3, 2002 18:40 UTC (Mon) by bluetea (guest, #1108) [Link]

I would suggest trying the text mode installer if you haven't already. It seems to be a little more robust for me.

Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 3, 2002 20:16 UTC (Mon) by Tim (guest, #122) [Link]

I had the same problem--various packages would fail, and the install would crash. Turned out to be a dirty CD. Try checking the MD5 Sums of your CD from the boot prompt.

Try a different CD-ROM

Posted Jun 3, 2002 20:18 UTC (Mon) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

I had extensive and fairly repeatable problems installing 7.1 which turned out to be traceable to a bad IDE CD-ROM drive. Replacing the drive solved the problems entire.

Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 3, 2002 20:28 UTC (Mon) by jonlasser (guest, #1077) [Link]

The other likely failure cause is bad RAM. See if you can run memtest86 and find out if there's a bad chip somewhere...

Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

Posted Jun 4, 2002 10:31 UTC (Tue) by george (guest, #1197) [Link]

In a 1U case, your video card is likely to be an old PCI card, not an AGP card as is almost universally used elsewhere. If this is true, the previous poster's advice to try the text mode installation is likely to help, given the problems you report. I had similar problems with a rackmount PC that has a SiS PCI card; they were easy to resolve after a text mode install.