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I`m trying to install RHEL5 for the third time today and i didnt succeed. It is an HP PC, single Hitachi HDD.
I configure the 3 partitions; /boot, swap and /. I chose ext3 file system for the /boot and /, but while it is formating these partitions the step is stucked near 95% of its process.
What could the reason be? If I try to format it with another type of file system could it make any difference. Whats is the closest type of other filesystem to ext3?
Try to cycle terminals during the install with CTRL+ALT+Fn, where n is between 1 and 7 IIRC. At least two screens should be full of syslog-like status messages, maybe there's clues there. At lease one should give you access to a shell so you can execute any commands to dmesg and check progress. If all fails you could even fdisk and mkfs.ext3 from there.
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