[AG-TECH] AG Linux dist. on Dell Precision (fwd)

Don Morton donmorton at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 28 18:59:40 CST 2002


On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:10:04 -0800 (PST), "Shahid M. Bhatti"
<shahid at cs.ucsb.edu> said:
> 
> I made the CD from the iso image for AG version of RedHat Linux available 
> from Access Grid website. When I try to boot the machine with the
> bootable 
> Linux CD, it boots the machine alright and the setup starts, it let's me 
> do the disk partitioning also, but a little later in the setup process,
> it 
> does not start copying files to the disk and hangs there for ever.

it might possibly be formatting drives and doing a bad block
test, which sometimes seems to take "forever."  maybe a more 
rigorous definition of "forever" would help :)

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