Re: Installing 7300/200 stalls on formatting


Subject: Re: Installing 7300/200 stalls on formatting
From: Jon (champoux@mediaone.net)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 11:08:24 MST


Same here, my 256 will be here tomorrow or friday.

I just hope this fixes it. ;P

on 12/12/01 11:12 AM, Blake Girardot at girardot@mac.com wrote:

>
>
> i have this exact same problem, on an 8500/120 with 32 megs of ram.
>
> after making sure i load the text based installer all goes well, i can make
> the partitions, but when i click save after i am done the progress bar
> appears, it might move one or two clicks, and then it just hangs, no disk
> activity, no screen activity and it never finishes as i have left it over
> night. i have done this about 6 or 7 times. the disk is fine, it takes mac
> os just fine, several times as well.
>
> i didnt know about the other consol to see error output so i dont know what
> mine says, but from what was posted here by Jon i think, it looks to me like
> the kernel doesn't have enough memory to load the module required to format
> a disk or read it or something.
>
> i think its just going to come down to you need at least 64 megs of ram to
> use even the YDL 2.1 text based installer. i'll be buying some more ram and
> let you know if that fixes the problem.
>
>
> blake
>
>
>



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