[K12OSN] Trouble installing k12 v5

[Calvin Dodge]

On 9/18/06, Julius Szelagiewicz <julius at turtle.com> wrote:
> Dear Folks,
>         I am trying to install K12 v 5 on my new Sony laptop. The
> installation (over NFS) goes fine in the beginning, does successful
> dependency checks and hangs on "Starting install process. this may take
> several minutes ..." Left it there for several hours, no progress.
>         Any idea what it might be, where to look for errors, solutions?
> Thanks, julius

What is the exact laptop model?  That can help those of us who get our
guru knowledge from Google. ;^)

I have no knowledge of Sony-specific issues, but on general principles
I'd try adding "noapic" to the command line at the first screen (the
"press Enter to install" one).

Calvin