Howdy,
I had the exact same problem yesterday. I have a modest 486 box that
I had 4.1 working on perfectly. I decided to load up 5.0 and instead
of upgrading, I thought for the fun of it, I would do a fresh
install.
I got the install program running, went off to get a cup of coffee
and found when I came back that it had blown up... words all over the
screen in a disorganised fashion with the words umount unsuccessful
somewhere in there as well as some other jumble.
The ONLY thing I changed on the machine before starting the install
was that I decided it was an opportune time to add more RAM. So I
decided I might have some bad RAM. I took the extra RAM out and
started the install process again.
I went off to go do something and just as I came back to the
computer, it blew up again. Except at the bottom of the jumbled mess
of text and errors on the screen, it said that you should be able to
reboot the computer.
_Really_ perplexed at this point, I decided I would sit and watch the
install to see if it was choking on a particular file or something.
I hit Ctl-Alt-Del and rebooted. I sat at the computer throughout
the duration of the install and it went off perfectly. Go figure!
In summary, I have no explanation except that I wonder if the
install process is a little sensitive to glitches. I'm still
suspicious of the RAM that I put in the machine for the first install
(it was second hand from another computer and a long story which I
won't go into here) and the second install... who knows?
I'm no wizard at trouble shooting, but if you have an extra machine
around, you might try swapping out a few parts one at a time (CDROM,
RAM, Controller Card). I had trouble a year or so ago with an
4.0 install blowing up, I swapped CD Roms with another machine and it
loaded up perfectly. It turned out that the troublesome CD ROM,
though it appeared to be working perfectly in DOS at the time,
finally totally died about a month or so later. The Linux install
seemed to reveal it before anything else did! It could be that you
have something "under the hood" that Linux is sensitive to. At first
boot, it runs fine, but it fails somewhere in the install.
Of course, I say all of the above with the standard disclaimers of
standing behind anything I write... waaaaay behind! ;-)
Good luck... please report whatever you find out in the end.
Regards,
Donovan
> Hi,
> I have been trying to install redhat 5.0 on a p233mmx machine. It has a
> 4.0 gb Western Digital hard drive, that supports UltraDMA. It also has a
> Teac 24X cdrom, 33.6 modem that I know works with Redhat because I am
> using it on another machine that runs redhat 5.0. It would be a dual boot
> system also with windows95 on it. It has a diamond 2000 video card that I
> know will be supported by Xwindows, and I have monitor that I have
> documentation on. When I built this machine, every part I put into it, I
> put in with Linux in mind.
> That is why I cannot figure out why when I tried to install
> Redhat5.0 to my machine, it began to produce many errors. I will try and
>
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