I'm having a problem with anaconda hanging during a FTP install. I have tried this on two seperate laptops, different processors, different manufacturers, and 6 different PCMCIA NICs! I seem to hang completely upon getting to the "Welcome to Red Hat Linux!" screen. I cannot toggle to the other VTYs or anything. I have a prompt to hit "OK" or "Back". I can do nothing at this point besides power off. I have upgraded the BIOS of both laptops to the latest rev levels, and even tried expert install with no help. I downloaded and tried the latest floppy images from the errata but they didn't seem to help. I'm at a loss here. I've even tried pinstripe, but there is another error there. Pinstripe only worked with one of the NICs I've tried, but all NICs were autodetected correctly and were able to FTP and download the second stage install with no problem. Here are my HW configs: HP Omnibook 2000CS Pentium 133 MHz 24 Megs RAM Midwest Micro Elite Lite i486 SX 33 12 Megs RAM PCMCIA Network Cards: 3com 3c589C 3com 3c589D 3com 3c589DC (X-Jack) 3com 3ccfe575bt IBM Home and Away 14.4 Modem and 10 base-T ethernet Intel Pro/100 CardBus II 10/100 Please let me know what else I can try...
For laughs, if you suspend and restart the laptop when it appears to be hung, does it continue ok? I think the mouse probing code is causing trouble. Also, do NFS installs work?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15386 ***