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by abhinav_gdp

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When Ever i try to install Fedora Core Six on my P4(2.0)Ghz having samsung spinpoint hard disk the system hangs every time and the operation could not be performed. So the installation fails every time.

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by dawgit

Check the Red Hat web site if it is, they might have a patch for SATA drives. If it's ATA you shouldn't have that problem. Let us know. -d

by dawgit

What is the Brand of the computer? Mainboard? As far as I know, almost all Hard drives are suported. (but not all computers are Linux friendly) -d

by abhinav_gdp

In reference to your mail i am providing you the details of my hardware . I have P4 (2.0) GHz, giabyte motherboard GA8S650GXM, with Sis 650 chipset. A 256MB Symmtronics RAM(266MHz). A samsung SV0411N Spinpoint IDE Hard disk. the problem only arises while installing Fedora Core 6. All other Linux OS are installed without Glitches Including Fedora Core (1,2,3,4,5).

by cls8

You didn't tell us when it hangs. Is it still reading the install environment off the CD? Has it gotten as far as trying to create file systems? If it's hanging early, I vote for a bad CD burn. Did you check the image's MD5 sum from the download site against the image you burned? Did you verify the burn after fixating? The Linux installers I've used are pretty bad about reporting CD errors.

by boxfiddler

Fedora Core 6 on an old laptop. I had several installation problems involving hanging at various points in the installation. I resolved some of these problems by restoring my BIOS to defaults, and disconnecting my USB mouse. FC 6 doesn't seem to like it at all. Also, I appeared to have gotten 'bad burns', so I ordered the OS DVD from OSDisk.com. After all this, my 4th install proceeded nicely and I am up and running, no probs beyond post-install config things.

by cls8

The USB mouse goes through layers of stuff. Hotplug, udev or devfs, Hardware Abstraction Layer, and Human Interface Devices (in the kernel) and they all have to be set up right.

Try a regular PS2 mouse. Get one with three buttons. (The three buttons are usually Select, Paste, and either End-Select or pop-up menu, depending on context. Two-button mouses are missing Paste, but you can usually fake it by hitting left and right at the same time.) Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if the mouse is defined right.

by boxfiddler

PS2 mouse no help. Conflict with touchpad and Fedora just says no to PS2 mouse, no matter the BIOS settings. I'm guessing that when I become better acquainted with CL and Xorg I will find a workaround.

In the meantime, found the solution for USB mouse. Some setting somewhere that said "start a program when a device is detected" or something to that effect. Bingo - got mouse.

Thank you however! You have given me things to explore!

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