Oops -- I was misreading the screen. It was **NOT** nearly done -- it was
the TOTAL and REMAINING that were nearly equal, not the TOTAL and
COMPLETED.
I had gone away, expecting the load to take a couple hours (5.2 used to
take 20 minutes), so I didn't notice how LITTLE it had actually done.
I decided to retry with same partitions and pre-canned "workstation"
install -- just so I'd spend less time on setup until I found whether it
worked.
This time it stopped in:
Shadow-utils 752kBytes
PKGS SIZE Time
Total: 377 589M 0:02:14
Completed: 8 35M 0:00:08
Remaining: 369 554M 0:02:16
Again, keyboard and mouse were frozen.
> This machine previously had RedHat 5.0 installed on it and has been running
> for 28 months, never crashed -- only rebooted for kernel upgrades (twice).
>
> I've tried this installation twice today and it has failed approximately
> 1/2 way through each time with about 750 items installed and 750 to go.
>
> Everything seems to proceed OK until 1/2 way through package install...
>
> The screen freezes, not responding to keyboard or mouse. Didn't hang on
> the same package both times, but was very close to half-way through each
> time. Only escape was through reset button.
>
> No error indication.
>
> Machine is DEC 200 Mhz Pentium with 128 meg memory, a Diamond Stealth
> (Trio 64) video card, Logitec 3-button PS/2 mouse, SCSI CDROM, ...
>
>
> 4 GB SCSI Disk partitioned
> /boot 16M
> / 256M
> swap 256M
> /usr 2000M
> /var ~1600M (rest of disk)
>
> SCSI is AIC7xxx
>
>
> Any suggestions? It's very painful retrying this because I'm selecting
> individual packages, so package selection is tedious.
>
>
> pete peterson
> GenRad, Inc.
> 7 Technology Park Drive
> Westford, MA 01886-0033
>
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