While installing Red Hat 7.0 from CD in graphical mode, anaconda seems to time out during package installation. It doesn't always time out on the same package, but once it does, the install cannot proceed. The system is locked up. Anaconda reports no error message, and there is no apparent system failure or crash. It just stops. It may be part way through one package when it stops. Like I said, it isn't always at the same point that it dies. I can always tell when it is about to die. The cd drive sits and accesses for quite a while with no progress shown on the screen and no apparent hard drive activity. Then, after quite a while, the cd drive will just stop accessing. Then, its all over. I tried installing in text mode. This produced roughly the same scenario, except that when it finally timed out, the system clearly crashed. No error message. In fact, the screen turned to gibberish. The box that I am running the install on has had RH 6.x installed on it for quite a while with no apparent problems. When I began the 7.0 install, I did not do an upgrade. I re-partitioned the drives and did a new install. I have now gone back to RH 6.2 on the box, again with no problem.
Is this a cd that you downloaded and burned yourself? Sounds like something could have gone wrong. Can you look on VC3 and VC4 and see if there are any cdrom seek error messages?
The RH 7.0 cd that I am using is an official RedHat cd purchased in an official RedHat box. I'll have to try it again to get your answer on the cdrom seek error messages. I'll follow up when I get an opportunity to do so.
Tried it again. The following error messages appear on VC4 while reading many of the packages on the CD. Can't say if I have the first one first, but this is the sequence. ----------------------------------- ATAPI device hdd: Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06) Power on, reset or hardware reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00) ATAPI device hdd: Not ready to ready transition, medium may have changed -- (asc=0x28, ascq=0x00) --these two lines repeat one or more times-- hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 --end repeating lines-- hdd: ATAPI reset complete end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 915096 -------------------------------------------------------------- The sector number is not always the same.
This either means the CD drive is failing, or the CD you are using is bad. You can get a new CD via Red Hat customer support.