F10 installation error

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Luc MAIGNAN wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to install F10 on an external FireWire drive (Western Digital 
> MyPasseport III). But unfortunaly, F10 is unable to format it (it hangs 
> after 90%) ou write packages on it (hangs after 450 packages on 1300).
> There was any problem on the same hardware with F9.
> 
> ANyone has an idea ?

Do you have any messages on the text consoles when it hangs? (ctrl-alt 
and F1-F4 to switch between installer startup messages, interactive 
shell, anaconda log and syslog VTs during a graphical install).

If there's something there it would be good to capture it & post it to 
the list.

If the whole system hangs and doesn't respond to the keyboard then you 
may need to set up a serial console to be able to capture this stuff.

If you don't get anything logged and the system is still responsive, it 
would be worth getting some sysrq-t data - run:

echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger

In the shell on VT2 and then copy the resulting logs to another machine. 
This should show where things are getting stuck.

It might also be worth trying a LiveCD and then trying to do stuff to 
the firewire drive to try to reproduce the problem in a simpler 
environment (e.g. just try to format or copy lots of data to it).

Regards,
Bryn.