James, On Saturday 26 November 2005 20:39, James Parra wrote:
Installing from DVD and the installer is hanging at, 'Searching for info file', and doesn't go beyond that point. How do I get around this?
Patience. That stage can take a few minutes. I don't know why, but it's been that way for at least the past few releases, if I recall correctly.
Patiently waiting, although 45 minutes seems a long, long wait. If it is still at the same spot by morning, what would be the next step?
45 minutes does seem like a long time. How much mass storage do you have? How much of it is occupied by files? How many of them? How much RAM is there? How fast is the CPU? I wish I knew what it was doing in that phase, but I have a vague recollection of disk activity, so it could be dependent on how many files it has to search through including all devices with pre-existing file systems.
Thanks for the info on the DVD/CD question.
Best regards,
Good luck.
~James
Randall Schulz