Anaconda crashes at random places during install

[Alan]

Have you run memtest86 on the system to see if the memory is good?
http://www.memtest86.com/

When I have had random crashes of the type you have described, it has
almost always been memory.  (The exception has been a flaky
motherboard.) 


On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:35, Josh Burks wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I'm trying to build a MythTV box, and I found a really nice install
> guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/. My problem is when I try to
> install Fedora Core 1, the install crashes right after Anaconda tries
> to start X. I get "install exited abnormally" .... "now safe to
> reboot". So I tried a text based install. This worked fine until I hit
> the "Reading Package Information" screen right before you get to pick
> your packages. Then I got the "install exited abnormally" message
> again. This happened 3 times before I started looking into hardware
> and media checks. My cd's check out OK. Since then, the install likes
> to crash in various places, e.g. before you partition the drives, set
> up networking, etc. etc. I tried to install RedHat 9, and it does some
> of the similar things Fedora does.
>  
> I'm wondering if my motherboard is at fault, because this is the only
> hardware I haven't swaped out.
>  
> Specs on the system:
> MSI 845GV (MS-6714) Motherboard, no AGP slot
> 512 MB DDR
> P4 1.7 GHZ 400 MHZ FSB
> No other cards in any of the PCI slots yet. 
> No Floppy, Asus 52x CD-ROM
> Seagate 40 GB Barracuda HD
>  
>  
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts or ideas,
>  
> Josh Burks
>  
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Alan <alan at clueserver.org>