Interesting FC2 installation issue

[skennedy]

Got an odd one for you folks.

Got the installation cds, and proceded to try to install fc2. Didn't work. So I did the media check. Every time, it freezes up at 79percent. Hard lock, have to hit the reset button.

These cds have worked on other machines, mind you.

Thinking this might be some weird configuration ( CD as master when it should be slave or CS ) issue, I moved everything all over the place. No dice.

Well, it must be my machine, right? The fc1 cds work just fine, no issues. I did the media check and memtest, came out just fine.

Does anybody have any ideas what else to try? Anybody run into this and know the answer? Anybody have any experience with the harddrive install that can give me some pointers?

Thanks

[genci]

It could be the CD drive itself. Can you temporarily install a different drive?

I had a similar issue when trying to upgrade from Red Hat 8 to 9. Everytime I tried the install CD the machine froze halfway through and the media checks failed. Switching over CD drive enabled me to install using the same CD's. I have subsequently used the same CD drive to install FC1 plus other distro's without any trouble.

[skennedy]

Yeah, I forgot to mention: I've used three different cdroms, including the cdrom I used at work ( the other machine, that they worked on ).

I am guessing that there is something with the installation kernel and my motherboard that is causing problems, but I'll be damned if I know what or how to fix it.

[Seehund]

FWIV, I had the same thing when updating from FC1 to FC2. Not a total system freeze, but the installation froze and the graphical screen quit updating when <ctrl-alt-Fx>-ing to and fro.

I rebooted, chose to "upgrade" FC2 to FC2, and when the process reached package installation it picked up where it left off. It happened once more, not at the same place as before, but then I dropped the oc'd FSB frequency by 1 MHz, and the installation completed without interruption.

Of course, I don't know if it would've completed fine even without me downclocking the system. This box has been 100% stable at this (modest) overclocking for years in both Linux and WinXP.

Mediatests and memtest check out OK.

In case it matters, the RPMs to be installed when everything stopped were umb-scheme and kde-network, respectively.