Very Computer

I'v had Red Hat 7.1 and 6.1 working on this machine previously so this has
me dumbfoundered.

after going through the setup 'wizard' the computer will start copying files
after about 8 - 10 minutes the GUI disappears and the text prompt (following
on from 'Loading anaconda' etc.)
says;

install exited abnormally...
sending termination signals
sending kill signals

then it unmounts everything etc.
and says it is safe to reboot the system
this keeps on happening and is severly freaking me out
I've tryed repartitioning and reformating the drive, i've used a tool from
the disk manufacturer to write zeros to the disk and even tryed installing
win98 before Red Hat all to no avail.
been trying with 7.1 and 7.3 Red Hat (all of the disks of 7.3 pass the media
check)
evrything you could wish to know about the system is at
http://www.ebookhouse.com.au/SysReport.htm
i've tryed many different setup options (workstation, server, custom) all
with at least the defaults set.

PLEASE please help if you can, a unix box could proove very helpful to me.
thanx in advance
Dan

It could be a problem with the CD, possibly with the drive or the media.
You don't say if the CD's are locally burned or from a boxed set. If the
former, are they on CDR or CDRW media? I've had problems like this with
CDRW media on occasion. Do you have some other system that you could try
the installation on? Or could you swap out the CD drive with another,
even just temporarily for debugging?
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The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat.

Do you mean a dual-boot install, or a full install of Win98 followed by a
full install of Linux?

Quote:> been trying with 7.1 and 7.3 Red Hat (all of the disks of 7.3 pass the
> media check)
> evrything you could wish to know about the system is at
> http://www.ebookhouse.com.au/SysReport.htm

The listing is too long for a mortal to read, and the following information
is not in the first 500 lines. What size is your hard drive? Are you using
the entire hard drive for Linux?

Have yo considered upgrading your flash BIOS, as recommended by the analysis
program?

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Paul Lutus
www.arachnoid.com

Duane Top posts, BUT DOES NOT CROSS POST, to suggest:

One of the virtual consoles has more information about what
is happening.  When you get to the part where you are expecting
it to happen press Alt-F4 (maybe Control Alt F4, maybe some
other Function key, I forget which) and you will see the messages
about what is happening on the install.  You will probably find
that one of the packages is damaged or the Drive is failing.

Let us know what you find.

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"Duane"? Paul Lutus says, "Watch out for people who refer to themselves in
the third person." :)

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...^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^, cute, but it doesnt
work since they use "exclude lists"

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