On 10/09/2010 11:52 AM, Rod McCown wrote: > Already done that, and can build and save partitions, freezes when > formatting filesystems. I just successfully loaded Mandrake 8.1 a couple of > days ago, so I'm pretty sure that the hardware is ok. I'm downloading > Fedora 10 right now to see if maybe it will load. > > 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." > > -----Original Message----- > From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JD > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 1:42 PM > To: Community support for Fedora users > Subject: Re: Fedora 13 install > > 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. > When you boot the DVD for installing, do you let it check the media for sanity? There might be some bad spots on the media. It has happened to me a few times. -- 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
