the last time i had this problem was because of a bad hard drive, i installed it with the minimum (just the base package) it booted and every 2nd boot it would find bad sectors of the hard-drive. i was forced to get a new drive. ryan p.s. please don't send in HTML hard to read for some clients. -----Original Message----- From: Ricardo Quest [mailto:rquest@qsys.com.ar] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 1:52 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Install with troubles Linux SuSE users: During the installation of SuSE Linux 6.1 I get a hang state. The hang state gets in different phases of installation. Never finishing the install process. I boot from floppy, select English as language, Español as keyborard map, and entire disk to use. I have a 450 MHz Pentium III with 128 MB RAM and 12 GB IDE Hard disk. HD: Maxtor CYLS 16383 Heads 16 Sectors 63 Model 91303D6 Mother Board: SOYO SY-6VBA133 Video S3 VIRGE/DX ON BOARD QSE4BB Network adapter: 3Com Parallel Tasking II This is the 5th time I try to install. It is hangin with a message: PLEASE WAIT Creating filesystem on "/dev/hda3"... It is in this state since 4 hours ago... Can you please help me Best regards Yours Ricardo Quest rquest@qsys.com.ar -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/