FC-6 disappointment on AMD Athlon64 3200+ machine

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 03:29 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> <whinge>
> So far I have tried to install FC-6 four times on this machine,
> and each time it has hung - the last time with 2 minutes to go,
> while installing kdeaccessibility.
> To avoid problems with CDs, I'm installing from hard disk.
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if you choose slow speed (i.e. 2x, 4x, you pretty much eliminate CD
issues)
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> 
> I shall try again, this time installing the absolute minimum -
> neither Gnome nor KDE, and not even X.
> If this works, I'll install what I want afterwards with "yum groupinstall".
> If it doesn't work, I'll probably go over to debian.
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I ended up doing this same thing on a Pent III w/ 128MB RAM - less than
recommended memory ;-)
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> I really don't think anaconda is a very reliable program.
> This machine has been running Windows XP and Linux for a couple of years
> without any problems, so I assume there is nothing wrong with the hardware.
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I believe that Debian picked it up (anaconda)
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> Incidentally, the log that is kept in /root is completely useless.
> It simply tells me that the last package I was installing
> was kdeaccessibility, which I already knew.
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during install process - you can always check the virtual consoles (3 &
4)

<control><alt><F3> or <control><alt><F4> since errors are generally
reported there

Craig