Crashing during install

atopian · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 29 Location: Columbus, OH

Anyone else getting part way through the install and then having their system lock on them.

No, its not heat, its not bad hardware.

Specs:

Duel athalon 1800+
1 gig DDR registered ram
Tyan 2460 MB

System worked ok in redhat, becides with the GART bug.
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sawsedge · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston

Since I've not seen anyone else mention this, I must be having an unusual problem.

I downloaded the large i686 iso and made a CD. When I boot, it skips the language question and then hangs on the USB device detection. I have a logitech USB optical mouse, and a USB joystick. When I unplug both and use the mouse with a PS/2 adapter, it boots fine (does not skip the language question) and gets to the bash prompt, where I can start my setup.

Here is my hardware:
soyo 6ba+3 mainboard
celeron2 566 cpu - (o/c to 850)
logitech usb mouse (optical wheel mouse)
ms sidewinder usb joystick
ps/2 keyboard
384 megs of pc100 ram
voodoo3 video
maxtor 20 gig and 15 gig IDE harddrives
sony 48x ide cdrom
plextor 32/12/10 cd-rw ide drive
smc 10mb (ne2k) ethernet pci
sound blaster value (emu10k) pci
adaptec 2904? (aic7xxx driver) pci SCSI with zip100 and nikon ls-30 scanner attached

This setup works fine with win2k and mandrake 8.x. Any ideas? I've not tried to install yet, even with just the ps/2 devices.

static · Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2002 1:13 pm Post subject:

Mine did the same thing on the usb, but I rebooted and tried again, and within a few seconds of stopping in the same place, I hit <enter> and was at the root prompt (#) Try that.

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pr0vidence · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 47 Location: Connecticut

On mine it would crash while compiling (boot strap or system, it seemed random) after trying it several times I tried increasing the swap partition size, and that worked, it has not crashed yet. I don't know if that is your problem, but it's a suggestion (if you getting to the compiling phase of the install) my box has 96MB of memory and I made a 250MB swap.

sawsedge · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 20 Location: Boston

Hey Static,

Thanks, I'll try hitting enter when I get home. I don't recall if I tried it or not. ;-) It makes sense if it printed the usb detection results after it printed the language question...