[SLE] SuSE 8.1 Install hangs during package installation

From: Michael Young (michael.young_at_thermoanalytics.com)
Date: 08/30/04

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    Greetings SuSErs,

    After scouring the archives of several lists and coming up with nothing, I
    am looking for some help. I have problems installing SuSE 8.1 on an older
    PC I want to set up as a home file server. The hard drive is a brand new
    Seagate 120GB IDE connected to a HighPoint Rocket100 IDE card. It has
    Win98 installed and running properly on the first primary partition (other
    h/w details below).

    After starting YaST, I insert the IDE controller card driver into the
    kernel from a floppy before selecting the setup options (partitioning,
    software, boot, ...). No problems getting YaST to run in text or 640x480
    mode. Once I have the setup configured as detailed below, I accept the
    install warning message and start installing. The system moves along,
    installing the packages and reporting progress for a random amount of time
    and then hangs (I made several attempts and it is a different package each
    time). The keyboard and mouse are locked up, so I cannot change to a
    different terminal window to check for possible error messages.

    I tried 8.2 previously and became fed up with the continuous stream of file
    dependency warnings and failed RPM installs (with little to know detail in
    the error messages). I am using 8.1 as a fallback with the intention of
    attempting an upgrade to 8.2 once the system is up and running. I used the
    same 8.1 media on a brand new machine with no problems whatsoever. 9.X is
    out of the question as HighPoint does not support the 2.6 kernel on the
    Rocket100.

    Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Michael

    Other possibly useful details/clues-

    H/W:
    AMD K6-2
    356 MB RAM
    MS-5169 mainboard
    HighPoint Rocket100 IDE card
    Seagate Barracuda 7200 120GB HD - master
    Fujitsu 6GB HD - slave (legacy data)
    ATAPI 32X CDROM - master on IDE0
    MadDog 56X CDRW - slave on IDE0

    kernel params:
    no-hlt ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=Ox170,0x376,15 hda=cdrom hde=noprobe
    hdf=noprobe hdg=noprobe hdh=noprobe
    (also tried apm=off, apci=off; the noprobes are necessary only until the OS
    is loaded)

    Setup:
    Partitioning - 10GB ReiserFS for /, 96GB ReiserFS for /home, the balance
    for swap (mount the Win98 partitions as /c and /d)
    Software Options - Base Graphics, KDE, Web Server, File Server, C/C++ devtools 

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