Yeah that was my inital conclusion. However it is only a 4 gig drive for redhat with an 8 gig windows drive. I just left it for about 2-3 hours and it made no progress. It seems to fly up to the first 10% or so then just stop and I cant hear the cd spinning or hardrive clunking *technical terms of course!*
Cheers Ron -----Original Message----- From: Robert Fisher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:28 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: Re: INSTALLING redhat 8.0 The format can take a while, especially if you have a low spec machine or a large hard drive. I had no problems once I sorted out my Ram. Robert On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 22:22, Ronald Highet wrote: > > Just a question on the installation of redhat 8.0. > I have been running debian linux on my main machines for a while now and all has >been good. > Yesterday I tried to install the new redhat 8.0 on my desktop for a quick look at >how it runs. The installation was all it was hyped to be. Easy fast and far better >that windows. > I have two harddrives in the computer one with windows on it and the other one that >had debian linux and will contain redhat. > However when I got to the final part of the installation it simply says Formating / >filesystem and seizes. > > I have tried about 5 different variations of the install using both ext2 and ext3 >filesystems. > > Just wondering if anyone else has had the same kind of problems or even knows how to >fix it. > > Cheers > Ron > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Robert Fisher http://www.fisherfamily.orcon.net.nz
