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Bug 73838

Summary: 7.3 installer hangs 9.6 seconds into formatting /boot file system
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <frank.sgammato>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.3   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2002-09-26 17:55:10 UTC Type: ---
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dump file from anaconda
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file as dumped by instal program none

Description Need Real Name 2002-09-11 22:05:05 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Description of problem:
I installed 7.3 server without success, then tried workstation both used the 
default options upto and including autopartition. I'm using an Athlon XP with 
nVidia GeForce 2 chip set (Crush 11). I selected "linux noprobe". I saved the 
data to anacdump.txt.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.boot 7.3 from CD
2.select either workstation or server 
3.select default options
	

Actual Results:  system always hangs ~9.5 seconds into formatting /boot File 
System.

Expected Results:  The system should have formatted and partitioned the hard 
drive, then rebooted.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-09-11 22:14:23 UTC 
Created attachment 75824 [details]
dump file from anaconda
Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-09-13 21:15:39 UTC 
Have you tested your CDs?

http://people.redhat.com/~msf/mediacheck.html
Comment 3 James M. Condie 2002-09-26 17:55:04 UTC 
Created attachment 77327 [details]
file as dumped by instal program
Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-24 17:56:05 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***