p.s. the drive door opening is a sure sign that gOS has shut down, which means the install -has- finished.
On 22 nov, 14:51, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it was just the screen saver kicking in, I always turn it off > because I have seen installs crashing when it started. I think the > installer should turn it off automatically. Just reboot and see what > happens, in the worst case you just have to try again. Normally it > takes just a minute or so after all the files are installed to finish > the installation. > > On 22 nov, 05:43, peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK. So my new hard drive arrived and I installed it and tried loaded gOS. > > Everything appeared to go ok. It detected the disk, formatted it (I just > > let it do it's default formatting as I wanted to keep things simply as > > possible) and proceeded to do the install. It seemed to go fine until after > > it reached almost 100 percent I think. I didn't see the actual percentage > > of the install at the end, might actually have reached 100 percent. Anyway > > then screen went blank for a while. maybe 10 minutes or so an then the gOS > > sideways sliding bar appeared for a bit, then the thing just seemed to go > > into a kind of coma. The DVD Drive popped open and the screen went black. > > No drive light activity but the internal fan is on. It's been sitting like > > this for another twenty minutes or so now. What do I do? Just reboot and > > see what happens or just leave it and hope it'll come back to life on it's > > own? > > > - Peter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
