I have been having enormous problems installing both SuSE 5.1, Redhat 5.1
and Redhat 5.2 onto a Cyrix 6mx86, 233Mhz, 64Mb. The installation almost
always crashes when installing packages; in the past it has been sufficient
to go through the install process a few times, select a minimal amount of
packages, and hope for the best - eventually it would work.
But tonight, after three hours of frustration, I could not upgrade from
Redhat 5.1 to Redhat 5.2. After much coaxing, 5.2 refused to install and so
a downgrade back to 5.1 was necessary - but even this only eventually worked.
Anyway, I presume twelve crashes is not supposed to happen. Is this a
problem with Cyrix, me, Redhat, or is there simply a black hole (or
something) around my house (or have I got a rubbish computer)?
Thanks in advance for any help anyone might have with this incredible problem,
Trevor Johnston
PS
As a sign of the frustration has caused, my return key is now detached from
the keyboard.
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