From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: After making all my selections, the installer formats the root (and one additional partition), it gets to writing the image before installing packages. It hangs at this point. I have tested the CDs - all okay. I have tried installing ALL packages, server, workstation and custom. It always hangs after the format. The progress bar gets about 3/4 and just sits there. I even left it sitting for three hours only to find it never moved or completed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. pick options 2. format partitions 3. hangs after partial writing of image file Actual Results: always hangs Expected Results: it should start imstalling packages Additional info:
Are you using ext3 or some other filesystem? Are there any error messages on other ttys?
I have sekected ext3 for root(/) and first mount (/u01). Unable to switch during install to other ttys.
Does booting with 'linux ide=nodma' help?
Tried and still the same. It read the CDROM to boot from but then it acts like there is no cdrom attached.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
requested by Jams Antill
Fedora Core 3 is not maintained anymore. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version.