Fedora 7 install hung [Was: Re: Fedora 7 CD iso files?]

[Timothy Murphy]

Philip Walden wrote:

> Restarted and this time I got several hours into the install to "5 of
> 864 completed Installing glibc-common - 2.6-3.i386". Same thing, no disk
> activity, the cursor would not track and the spinning wait cursor froze.
> 
> At this point I suspect my original FC6 is busted. Any suggestions
> before I start with a complete, from scratch including disk reformat?

Well, is FC-6 "busted" or not?
I mean, will the system re-boot?

My experience is that if an upgrade fails
the system usually runs OK.

I had at least 3 failures like this while upgrading an Athlon-64 machine,
and it seems to run fine.


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