Bug 18184 - intaller freeze on dell ispiron 7500
Summary: intaller freeze on dell ispiron 7500
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-03 06:12 UTC by Francesco Defilippo
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:28 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2000-11-27 19:35:27 UTC
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Description Francesco Defilippo 2000-10-03 06:12:05 UTC
Installer freeze without any warning on Dell Inspiron 7500 
i'v try all the option without success.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-03 19:33:06 UTC
When does the installer freeze - what is it doing, what is the last output on
the screen, etc?

Comment 2 Chris Chabot 2000-10-04 12:14:36 UTC
Had the same problem on my Dell Inspiron 7500 (celeron 400, 64Mb, 6 gig hd,
neomagic vga).
It first fails on formatting partitions (see
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18320), when fixing that by
hand it often freezes on a random package install, or on post-install.

Also ive noted that it can often break on reading the files from the CDRom
(cd/dvd) drive, when droping to shell (sh, on term 2) i get an error doing an ls
on the /mnt/source .. unmounting and mounting the cdrom to that drive fixes the
warning on ls (but since the install doesnt have retry, wont fix that)

My theory for that part could be the amount of heat generated during install..
The many spinups/read's seems to heat the notebook's cdrom quite nicely ...
pausing the install during cd swap seemed to make the install more stable 




Comment 3 Francesco Defilippo 2000-10-04 15:39:29 UTC
in second stage load after display language selection.

my hardware:
	p3 500,dvd,ls120,128Mb,ati rage.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-26 22:11:47 UTC
Does it work if you try a minimal custom install - that might cause the drive to
not heat up as
much.

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-27 19:35:24 UTC
Closing due to inactivuty.


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