Merten, Joe wrote:
>
> it only got as far as installing packages
> when it would hang. I tried it several times, and it hung at various
> packages. I.E. one time it might make it through 90% of the packages
> before hanging, then another time it might only make it through 20%.
This smells like a SCSI bus-hanging problem. What kind of SCSI adapter
are you using?
Can you do REALLY BIG copies to or from a SCSI disk? For example, try
to copy the whole RedHat/RPMS directory someplace (provided you can make
the space). That's the sort of operation that seems like it will
reliably hang a buggy SCSI device every time. If you can reproduce the
problem with some reliability with the OS installed, it will be easier
to track down the nature of the problem, and my suspicion is that you
haven't seen the last of it.
> I get a
> message to the effect 'file system format iso9660 not supported'.
Are you using the stock kernel? I think it has iso9660 as a module, and
fstab is being read before your modules are initialized. Maybe. The
easiest way around this (if you really want your cd-rom to mount on the
boot) is probably to re-compile your kernel with the iso9660 filesystem
and related crap compiled into the main body of the kernel. If your
SCSI support is modular, then you'll want to compile that in too.
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