If you go to one of the other terminal windows, what do you see as far as available disk space?
How did you lay out the partitions?
-----Mike
Jay Estabrook wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 09:53:49PM -0500, Wynne Anderson Hexamer wrote:
> >
> > I've gotten further along in my attempt to install Red Hat on my AS
> > 800 with 6.2 than 6.1. However, though I've managed to boot the
> > x-windows gui install, it just freezes (help button and mouse still
> > move but CD quits) about 1/6 of the way into the install of the RPM
> > packages, usually on termcap. It isn't BSD disk labels, as I've
> > tried both ways of partitioning, nor the CD drive which I swapped
> > out, nor the ISO which I downloaded twice. I would greatly
> > appreciate any suggestions from someone who has solved a similar
> > problem or anyone with an idea of what I might try next.
>
> I'd say try bypassing the GUI install by adding "text" to the flags, ie
>
> >>> boot dka400 -file kernels/generic.gz -fl "root=/dev/scd0 text"
>
> --Jay++
>
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