It's important to know whether it's doing something while it appears to be stuck, or whether it's genuinely dead. Run top, and see if there is a process close to the top of the table which takes > 90% CPU time.
> I don't understand what "attach strace to the process taking 100% CPU, and > ctrl-C strace after a few seconds." means sorry. Use top, or ps aux, and look for the process which takes up (almost) all the CPU time. You need its process ID (pid). Then run strace -p thatnumber admire the gobbledegook flying past for a few seconds and press ctrl-C. If nothing is flying past then that particular process isn't doing much, and either you got the wrong pid, or t's more genuinely stuck. > One thought I have is: "do I have the wrong ip address for the internet > install repository?" the one I am using is: 204.152.191.39 How did you get that IP address? Are you installing from the mini ISO? Can you ping something, say google.com? Btw all these commands on console two, ctrl-alt-f2. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
