Re: 7.2 and 9.0 freeze

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:56:01 -0700, Robert Heiling <robheil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I recently rescued a 1995-vintage pentium 233 from the back corner of my garage
and returned the borrowed hardware to it - floppy, HD's 8.4GB, 6.4GB, & 1.6GB.
FC5, as I have here, is out of the question for that old machine, so I installed
RH7.2. It seemed to be running Ok, but there was a problem when it was left
unattended. I think the screen saver was taking effect and I'd find it frozen
with a blank screen. Space bar and/or mouse movement would not get it to come
back to life.

So I fresh installed RH9.0 (everything) and it now freezes at the text "login:"
prompt. This looks familiar, but I can't remember the problem.

I'm trying to understand what you mean by "freezes". Have you
tried typing "root" at the prompt, and then use the password you set
up during the install?

If you fresh installed RH9, then perhaps this is the normal login
prompt, waiting for you to login.

Also, I seem to remember that an "everything" install of RH9 gave some
users problems. Perhaps you should try a "Workstation" (I think it
was called) install.

It's been a long time since I installed a RH9 system, and I never did
an "Everything" install.

I've run memtest86 for a day and there were zero errors. Win98 has been
installed on hdb-6.4GB (the 1.6GB is setup as linux swap) now and it runs
without any problems, so I doubt that the freezing is any sort of hardware
problem.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

--
Dale Dellutri <ddelQQQlutr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (lose the Q's)
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