Description of Problem: I was installing Personal Edition of Redhat 7.3 on a desktop machine. During the process on install disk # 2 I got an error message that said the system crashed most likely due to a bug and I should report it. I saved the error report on a disk and will be attaching it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Created attachment 77484 [details] Error report on crash during installation
Your CD appears to be bad from looking at the errors in the log.
The machine that crashed during installation giving me the bug report was a Pentium II 266 mz with 176 mgs of RAM. I successfully installed with the same CDs on two other machines a Gateway laptop Pentium III 1.1 Gz with 256 mgs of RAM and a desktop P4 1.8 Gz with 512 mgs of RAM after the installation failure on the P II. Is it possible that the P II just is not enough machine to handle Red Hat 7.3?
I might also mention that I successfully installed Mandrake Linux 8.0 on the P II machine both before and after 4 unsuccessful attempts at installing the Red Hat 7.3 on it. On the 5th try using the custom installation option and installing only Gnome desktop I made it through the installation without any errors. However, when the machine rebooted it came up to Gnome's login screen and locked up. I rebooted it 3 times and each time it locked up so I reinstalled the Mandrake on that machine. The installation went smooth without any errors on both the P III laptop and the P4 desktop.
These errors: <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 230924 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 230928 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1301172 are from bad reads from the CD.