On Saturday 05 April 2003 11:45 pm, Joe Dennehy wrote: > I have a problem which I am hoping you good people can help me sort out. I > am trying to install over mdk 9.0 (tried to upgrade first time with the > same problem) and it seems to stall a little under half way through (3 > times now). At first I thought perhaps this was related to the heat > problems I seem to be having with my burner, but I was able to reinstall > 9.0 without this problem. I know (virtually) nothing about checking md5sums > becasue I haven't ever encountered problems before. I ran md5sum on the > file that was in the same directory as the ISO's, and it gave me something > (a hash value?) which I do not no how to use. I used xcdroast to burn the > ISO's and it didn't report any problems. Suggestions? > > TIA. One possible cause for this problem is not enough room in /usr or one of the other partitions. How did you set up your partitions and how much room in each? If the install gets part way through and runs out of room to finish say /usr/bin then it will stall, in my experience. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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