[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues

augie augie at schwer.us
Tue Dec 9 06:42:01 PST 2003


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Meg Holden wrote:
> I was helping a friend install Red Hat 9 on her laptop today and we
> ran into an interesting problem.  I'm still kinda a newbie at this so
> I thought that somebody here might have a clue. We boot from the CD
> and get the Red Hat Options (Install in Graphic mode, Install in Text
> mode, boot in rescue mode...). From there we tried Install in both
> graphical mode and text mode and would get the next screen, but from
> there it seems to be frozen.  It's the check CD or skip option
> screen, but no commands would work at all.  Any ideas? Thanks, Meg

Usually during an install there is some kind of logging going on on one
of the virtual terminals. You could check those; could be a hardware
error. Ctrl-Alt-(F1..F12).

augie.


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