Red Hat 8.0 Installation Takes Way Too Long

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:08, Ernie L. Bérriz wrote:
> I am attempting to install my first Linux system, Red Hat 8.0, from a boxed
> set. I was doing the text-based installation, taking my time to make sure I
> understood as much as possible for future reference, and everything seemed
> to be going fine, except for the fact that after 6 hours of installing the
> RPMs, the installation counter showed it still had 10 hours to go.
>
> I have read all the documentation I could get my hands on, searched the Red
> Hat site, as wells as googled for more information, all to no avail. I am
> assuming this is not normal :)
>
> My system is a Pentium-II running at 266-MHz with 640-MB of RAM, a 13-GB IDE
> hard drive for the Linux system, and a CD-RW drive, from which I am
> installing. It's not state-of-the-art, but it's well within the specs listed
> by Red Hat in their Hardware Compatibility List. It also has been running
> Windows 98 with no problems.
>
> I was attempting to install it on the second drive (hdb or D:\, depending on
> the OS), and using GRUB to choose the OS to boot. Drive C:\ still has
> Windows 98 on it.
>
> This is all the information I can think of that may be relevant to this
> problem, but I will be glad to provide anything else that may help to
> analyze this problem.
>
> I would be extremely grateful for any assistance.
>
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Try pressing Control-Alt-F3 (or perhaps it's F4 or F2, I always forget)

This will should you standard out which is where errors will be reported
on screen

Craig