Fedora 4/6 hang on installation
Submitted by kgretche on March 22, 2007 - 21:00.
I recently purchased a new motherboard (Asus P5W DH), and a new 320GB SATA drive. I set aside 20 gigs for a my Linux boot, but I've been having some trouble installing it. I never had any problems when I was using my old motherboard.
Currently, the install hangs after it asks me to select where to install from (CD-ROM, HTTP, FTP, etc). I used askmethod because without it, it hangs before it even asks me for anything. I've been trying with both Fedora 4 (what I've been using in the past), and Fedora 6.
Any suggestions?
EDIT: I just found out that the system hangs when it tries to mount the CD-ROM device. This is the message:
Trying to mount CD device hda
It says that and then just sits....
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/dev/hda might not be your
/dev/hda might not be your CD rom drive then. Did you try scanning / probing for another one. Usually hard drives are installed first so they are hda hdb...then comes your other drives like DVD and CD-ROM on hdc ... and so on. Your boot partition doesn't have to be big, just like 512 mb is more than enough. Your root partition though is where everything underneath "/" is.
Can you boot a livecd like
Can you boot a livecd like knoppix? It might be that your cdrom is flakey.
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Andrew
It may be due to the fact
It may be due to the fact that you are trying to install Fedora Core. Here's my recommendation: get Ubuntu. Or better yet, get Kubuntu.
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Or better yet, for a KDE
Or better yet, for a KDE install that isn't crippled and software that is more than just "free as in speech", gentoo :)
Josh
Oh, Josh, why can't you two
Oh, Josh, why can't you two just get along?
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