Fedora Core 4 fails installation hangs shortly after staringthe process

[Benjamin Opatowski]

John:

It hangs and I don't have any USB devices.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bray" <jmblin at comcast.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 2:58 PM
Subject: re: Fedora Core 4 fails installation hangs shortly after staringthe 
process


> On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 09:44 -0400, Benjamin Opatowski wrote:
>> I have easily installed all the previous Fedoras (1-3) on the same
>> machine with no problems.  The Fedora 4 installation hangs - the
>> screen just goes blank - shortly after the first installation CD takes
>> off.  The media was checked, registering passed on all four CDs.  I
>> don't have clue what's wrong.
>>
>> Ben
>
> this happened to me when i had USB stuff plugged in.  i believe, but
> don't know for sure, that it was the webcam which caused the problem.
>
> after install, it hung similarly, at least until i installed a proper
> PWC driver.
>
> john
>
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