Linux experts, I need some help

[Electric Amish]

Been trying to install Red Hat 6.2 on a system at home to make it a router.

I've installed it many times on other systems and never had a problem.

This one, after going through all the setup, after it installes all the packages, it freezes at the "Post Configuration Verification" screen. The mouse still
works, tho.

I setup a 128mb swap, 200mb /boot, and a 800mb / directory.

I can swap to another terminal. The last line is something regarding setting up the swap file (Priority -1).

Anybody have any ideas??

thanks,

amish

 

[n0cmonkey]

Linux is still at v2.4.14 (last I checked) so you are either crazy or refering to a distribution (or both ). Slack 8 took a heck of a long time to format and setup the swap though.

 

[Electric Amish]

Sorry, that shoulda been RedHat 6.2.

amish

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is this old hardware? Ive heard some people mention rh 6.2 had trouble with newer athlons and whatnot. Also, try the text mode installer. And you could try giving it more time (I dont know how much time you are giving it or what kind of hardware since you gave no information on that).

 

[Electric Amish]

It's old hardware.

Pentium 200mmx
Matrox Mystique 4mb
Seagate 1.2gb HD
64mb ram

I gave it a good 10 minutes. No disk activity.

amish

 

[jose]

Check your partition sizes. Normaly you have a /boot of 32mb max .
/swap - 128mb max. Just use the rest of the drive for /root.

Also check the size of package(s) selected for install. More than likely
you don't have enough space on /root

BTW why don't you go w/ the newer 2.4 kernel RH7.1 or 7.2

Regards
Jose

 

[Electric Amish]

My root is 800mb. That should be plenty.

I'm not going with 7.2 because the kernel in 6.2 is more stable and 7.2 changes from ip-chains to ip-tables.

amish

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< My root is 800mb. That should be plenty.

I'm not going with 7.2 because the kernel in 6.2 is more stable and 7.2 changes from ip-chains to ip-tables.

amish >>



That is why you should change from 6.2 to 7.2

 

[Nothinman]

First I would make /boot only 15M or so, kernels aren't very big so you shouldn't fill that unless you have a very large number of them.

Have you tried running the text only install?

 

[Electric Amish]

No, I haven't tried the text only install.

amish

 

[jose]

I'm currently using 7.1 w/ the latest RH kernel 2.4.9-12 it is very stable.

Also I'm using ipchains. I also plan on moving to 2.4.14 because it is
supposed to have better VM than the first 2.4 kernels.

I wouldn't say that the 2.2 kernel is better than the 2.4, it's just older,
the 2.4 supports more memory >2g , does smp better , has a better
tcp stack, etc .....

But maybe your needs don't require a 2.4 kernel. But it doesn't hurt
getting used to iptables......

Regards
Jose