The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any other
keyboard input. It also stops installing packages. I am able to run fdisk,
the install program formatted the partitions with checking enabled, swap is
formatted and initialized, it but hangs when installing packages, sometimes
in the same place but often not. I have tried various kernels and BIOS
settings, including safe mode. It is a new system with Athlon 64 X2 3800+
and 2G memory, BFG Tech motherboard VNF4 ultra with nVIDIA nForce4 chipset.
Brand new WD 120G ATA hard drive.

I can boot the machine from a Win95 boot floppy to a DOS prompt and run
Partition Magic with no problems.
I have been using Slackware since 1995 and have encountered various problems
over the years but could use some ideas on this one. It is my understanding
that the Athlon 64 will run 32 bit code with no problems or special
requirements and the dual core should run on one core until I build a new
kernel with smb support.

What am I missing?

Thanks,

--
David Stites
Mount Vernon, WA
david at dstites dot net

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:30:55 GMT, "David Stites" <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote:

>The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any other
....
>What am I missing?

Perhaps a BIOS update and the proprietary nForce chipset drivers?

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:25:28 +0000, Grant wrote:

>> The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any
>> other
>> What am I missing?
> Perhaps a BIOS update and the proprietary nForce chipset drivers?

or, try downloading a -current dvd/cd. its upgradeable to 10.2 which will
be out soon, is quite stable, and has a more recent kernel which is much
more likely to support your chipset.
unofficial, find it at mirrors such as
ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO...ent-ISO-build/

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 06:49:35 +0200, Mad-Eye Moody <zhillaREMOVEBRA@spymac.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:25:28 +0000, Grant wrote:
>
>>> The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any
>>> other
>>> What am I missing?
>> Perhaps a BIOS update and the proprietary nForce chipset drivers?
>
>or, try downloading a -current dvd/cd. its upgradeable to 10.2 which will
>be out soon, is quite stable, and has a more recent kernel which is much
>more likely to support your chipset.
>unofficial, find it at mirrors such as
>ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO...ent-ISO-build/

That's what I forgot, I needed to make a slack-current boot CD to get
slackware-10.1 onto a SATA box 'cos it needed more recent kernel, dunno
about nForce IDE though.

Certainly worth a try.

Cheers,
Grant.

David Stites wrote:
> The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any other
> keyboard input. It also stops installing packages. I am able to run fdisk,
> the install program formatted the partitions with checking enabled, swap is
> formatted and initialized, it but hangs when installing packages, sometimes
> in the same place but often not. I have tried various kernels and BIOS

Maybe bad memory. Seemingly random crashes are often hardware problems.
I had a slackware keep crashing on installing packages from CD. had
borrowed 512mb of RAM that was known to be bad. Eventually got it
installed with less than a complete install, just until the RAM I had
orderd arrived. Kept crashing even then.

> settings, including safe mode. It is a new system with Athlon 64 X2 3800+
> and 2G memory, BFG Tech motherboard VNF4 ultra with nVIDIA nForce4 chipset.
> Brand new WD 120G ATA hard drive.

/me drools

Nice kit. Must be really pissing you off :-)

> I can boot the machine from a Win95 boot floppy to a DOS prompt and run
> Partition Magic with no problems.

Well that might not be too taxing. DOS quite primitive no? Probably
doesn't use more than 640k or something daft :-)

What memory did you use? Try one stick at a time instead of two, be
slower but might help. Not that it won't still be fast but anyway. I
spent £80 on 512M recently when I could have got it for £30, but I know
its not the memory that causes problems now. Its NVidia. Bastard closed
source kernel modules.

"David Stites" <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any other
> keyboard input. It also stops installing packages. I am able to run fdisk,
>>
> --
> David Stites
> Mount Vernon, WA
> david at dstites dot net
>
Thanks all. I have downloaded and tried slack-current. No joy.
I bought Corsair memory tested as a pair and paid Monarch computer for
installing the hardware and doing a burn-in. Still I tested the memory
sticks one at a time. No joy.
I have a complete set of drivers from BFG. They are for Windows though. I
have ordered Windows XP64 and will install it. When the new machine is
running I will port my mail sever, etc from my Win2000 machine and then
install Slackware on it. It is a PIII 933 with an Abit motherboard and I
used to dual boot Linux on it.
I don't blame Linux or Slackware. I know it takes a while to get support
for the new technology but I was hoping.

Later,

--
David Stites
Mount Vernon, WA
david at dstites dot net

"David Stites" <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote in message
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> "David Stites" <david@dstites.net.invalid> wrote in message
> news:zaONe.855$Vg7.82@trnddc06...
>> The installation program hangs up, will not respond to ctrl-C or any
>> other keyboard input. It also stops installing packages. I am able to run
>> fdisk,

Well, I installed Win XPx64, but then had to go to the nVidia web site and
get special drivers, burn onto a CD and then install on the new machine to
get the onboard LAN to work. Right now everything seems to be working so no
hardware problems that I can see.

Later,
--
David Stites
Mount Vernon, WA
david at dstites dot net

You have very latest hardware, so probably the lates
software do not hurt to much
I run "32bit and 64bit" OS on x86_64 platform, and i have no problem
For "32bit" OS you need the latest software
For "64bit" OS i use "Slamd64", works perfect
Some issue with "nvidia" drivers, but after i recompiled the
"nvidia package" with "AGP 4x", seems wery stable(only one month
have this AMD64 board)

Happy hacking

(MSI K8N Neo2, 2GB memory, self comp. kernel

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