My fedora 9 is hanging
 

i have installed fedora9 in my system with following configuration
pentium IV 2.4GHz
512 MB DDR RAM
80 GB HDD

i installed fedora9 with following partition
/boot=100MB
SWAP =1024MB
/=8GB

it is working well but is is hanging often every time i have to restart the machine

plz tell me the reason for hanging

hanging fedora 9
 

I tried to install the same and it was ok till I attempted to do the updates. It died. Didn't have the patience to persist but if it is any consolation, fedora is an experimental version of Red Hat so expect glitches.

Who made the partitions you or Fedora ?
if I compare it with mine made by Fedora /boot 196 MB Swap 2 GB /= 20 GB
So maybe you,re partition are to small

is this right create swap partition more than double size of RAM

(ie 512MB RAM and 2GB SWAP)

it could not harm you ?
Is it use full there is a lot of discussion on this issue

512 meg ram is the VERY low end limit
that is one of ?? howmany reasons for it to hang .
8 Gig for / is a bit small but will work , but not well .
i set mine up like this
/boot 78 meg
/ 45Gig
/home 5 gig
swap 4 gig
/nmt/ntfs 10 gig win xp share partition
/usr/opt 130 gig data
/mnt/windows ( second hard drive ) 80 gig
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