[ltp] Redhat 7.0 GUI Install Problems on IBM Thinkpad 600E

[Dean Hedin]

> I tried several times last night to install Redhat 7.0 from a bootable CD on
> an IBM Thinkpad 600E PII 233 192MB RAM.
> 
> The CD boots fine.  I chose a standard workstation install with automatic
> disk configuration.  The disk formats and ALL packages install.  At the end
> of the package install portion, the display says that there are 0.0 MB left
> to copy, but the Overall status bar hangs at about 3/4.  The disk and CD-ROM
> stop spinning and the machine is unresponsive with the exception of the
> mouse.
> 

Sounds like a CD read error.  I would strongly recommend the recently released
RedHat 7.1.  It now has a laptop install class that makes setup easier.



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