Re: F8 install slow

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:23 +0000, Da Rock wrote:
I'm installing F8 on my second laptop (finally getting rid of bloody
Windows - sorry for the language but this has truely given me the
shits no end! And HP will only talk to you if you have it on the
system! They're crazy people - it could be hardware thats the
problem but they will insist Windows will fix it with their "magic"
software... (you'll have to excuse my ranting but this is really a
sore point!)) and the process is really slow to even get to the
install - first it stops at running /sbin/loader, then it stops
again before anaconda installer.

I had this prob last time, but I thought it might be the disk. This
is a completely fresh disk- I only just burnt it. I've run media
check and it comes up ok too. It seems to be locked loading modules,
and where it slows is on the loop module, and takes hours at the
pcmcia module.

Any ideas?

I wish you luck... I ended up scrapping the HP and buying another
(non-hp) computer. Seems like the Compaq folks have infected HP's
design philosophy, which is weird because Compaq failed and HP bought
them for a song due to the way they treated customers with their
software and proprietary Windows setups. I just will NEVER buy or
recommend an HP ever again. Fool me once....

Regards,
Les H

I had three HP laptops and I have had a couple of good experiences with
HP repair dealing mostly with the flaky power connections on a Z 5000
series laptop. I also have a network of desk side systems. A few
months ago one of the desk-side systems became questionable and after
twenty years of building systems with parts from Fry's and other
Bay area shops I moved to the Central Coast of California with a dearth
of places to buy pieces parts I bought an attractively priced HP desk
side system. I blew away Vista, installed FC 7 called to register my
system and HP refused accept registration because it did not have a
Windoze OS!!

I wanted to get a new lighter laptop so I went shopping and bought, not
an HP, but a Sony.

two weeks ago I received a laptop back from HP repair. Two key caps had
popped off and I had no success reinstalling them. I had failures with
Windoze backup, but I had never had a problem with losing data on
previous HP repairs, so I wasn't worried about my data. I did note the
backup problems, and asked that they not mess with the disks.

The system is my Photography system and ran XP. I am waiting for GIMP
to get close enough to Adobe Photoshop. The system returned with the
system disk "reimaged" -- to fix a couple of key caps!! They blew away
a whole bunch of expensive photography music and security software. I
should be able to recover from original media or from the Internet. I
did spend a week trying to recover from the failed backups and
reinstalling XP on new drives before starting from scratch reinstalling
the missing applications.

The new disks provide an idiotic a sidelight to this fiasco, I had
bought a couple of larger Hitachi disks to replace the OEM Hitachi
drives that came with the laptop I was going to convert the system to a
dual boot F8/XP system, but the HP idiots said they would not repair the
keyboard unless the OEM disks were left in the system.

Surprise, surprise -- I am also done with HP, and I will tell all comers
that they are better off with about anybody else's systems.

Grimly yours,

dlg

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