25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
13:14
FWIW, when I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on my second hard drive (a Maxtor), which had been subjected to three or four other distro installations, it just wouldn't install. It kept hanging at various points during the installation. So, I went to the Maxtor website, downloaded their little low-level format program, and proceeding to perform a low-level format on the troublesome drive.
The next time I tried to install 7.3, it worked flawlessly.
That suggests a soft media error or similar. It could just have been that the SuSE installation was stumbling over a fault on the disk surface which the other distros happened to miss. -- 2:04pm up 3 days, 5:44, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00