[NBLUG/talk] Red Hat Install issues

[Steve Smith]

Also, laptop installations get very interesting.  I've never
had an install on a Sony go smoothly.  What are you
installing on?

Steve S.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, augie wrote:

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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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