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Install Hangs on first restart
How long should SP2 take to install (roughly) on a 3GHz Pentium 4 PC? I've checked the eventlog and there's no messages in there giving me any pointers at all. What I have noticed is that on the first reboot after the install locks up, a message pops up about Windows Media Player and not being able to find a

WinXP Pro install hangs at blank blue screen at 1st reboot
Andrew andrew.auds...@gartner.com microsoft public windowsme setup I am trying to install a upgrade copy of ME on a maxtor ata 100 20gig harddrive and it will not work. I have fdisked and formated the drive a number of time but it still will not load. It runs through everything fine then it restarts and hangs on

Vista RC1 install hangs during first boot
Olin...@diversified.com> writes: I would appreciate any ideas on what to do next. RH5.1 install hangs on my system. First, a system description. Then reboot in the regular installer and try doing it again. One other point: The mke2fs program is quite slow on large partitions, even if it's not verifying the

Easy CD Install Hangs
Could not reboot with ctrl-alt-delete, had to hit the reset button. (Upon rebooting into XP, the network came up with no problem.) I'm pretty sure it's the damn Winmodem that's causing the hang on "Detecting new hardware," but I haven't the vaguest idea what's screwing up the network connection. Suggestions?

Install hangs on hardware setup
All, I am trying to install win98 SE into my win98 machine. The setup has gone through fine and done its first reboot and was doing plug-n-play settings setup when it hangs. So I reset the machine. Upon restart, it did a lot of Hard drive read nad has a busy mouse icon on a blue screen. After 2 minutes, no more HD

10.2 install hangs at GRUB
I try to install WARP and get through the first phase of the install and the system says to reboot. This is all normal. It all seemed to working smoothly. Actually, selective install hangs even after the install if I have the Ethernet card installed, but works fine otherwise. This is annoying, but I can live

Win 2003 srv install hangs at 34 minutes remaining
I got around the initial hangs during the installation (see my previous post from 9/10/04) by completing successfully the first part of the installation (before the reboot). Then, after the reboot, I do the "usual" procedures to get the Linux bootsector onto the C: drive for dualbooting with XP.

2.8 install hangs - i386
'89 a...@alumnae.caltech.edu_(Andrew_Lee comp os os2 setup misc I'm trying to (re)install OS/2 4.0 on an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT portable (120 MHz Pentium, 48 MB RAM, C&T 65550 video, ESS 688 audio, 3Com 3C562D PCMCIA Ethernet/Modem card). When I first got the machine in 1997, I installed OS/2 4.0 just

NU SystemWorks 2.0 Pro Install Hangs
Joe Kowalski wrote: I'm trying to set up a dual boot install for NT and Win 98. I used Partition Magic to create a new partition (FAT16) for the NT install. I used the set up disks and CD to install. Everything goes fine until the first reboot, then the system hangs. All I get is a blinking cursor.

can't re-boot
Adam Di Carlo a...@onshore.com linux debian bugs dist I'm trying to install Debian Ver. 2.1 (I'ma first timer with Debian.) I changed the bios to boot from At this point, the process hangs and I have to reboot. I tried some alternate boot arguments as per the Install Help screen and per the scsi Howto but no

new RH9 install hangs at X - setup as vesa
The attempted installation completely hosed w2k and I had to reinstall it. $29.00 wasted, but it is better than getting the retail version and wasting $80. At the first restart it hangs on the w2k splash screen. Had to go to the last known good profile to recover. Did not try Direct Cd. I am dual booted with

NT 4 install hangs
It went through the first stage ok and then rebooted. However when it gets to the stage of "registering components", the process just stops and hangs (even left possible is to power down and reboot. When it reboots though, it automatically tries to carry on with the setup until it hangs in the same place again.

XP Install hangs after reboot
michiganbuckeye michiganbuck...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Unfortunately I went through most of the installation and was almost done when, on the last reboot, I got a 0x000000F4 STOP error. When I tried safe mode it hung on whatever comes after crcdisk.sys.

FIXED! Re: Update: Install hangs computer
4) Lacking any further ideas at this stage, I reboot and tell LILO (the Linux bootloader in the MBR, left untouched) to boot Linux which works. Try my suggestions above to install OS/2. -- Carl Fink ca...@panix.com madscient...@genie.com Assistant Sysop, GEnie's First and Fourth Science Fiction RoundTables The

Adding Drives to a Netware 4.11 server
I thought I would first try installing it on my desktop to become familiar with the program. When trying to install NU SW 2.0 (pro edition), the install seems to go just fine until partially through the Norton Utilities section and then the computer just hangs. It is totally frozen and I have to reboot by turning

FC2 post-install hangs on dual boot system - SOLVED, KIND-OFF, NOT ...
(I also first tried to use windows setup to format. Later on when your files are installed, you can convert to ntfs if you want to "Bill" new install on SATA drive, windows sees the news HDD, goes through install process copies all the files then goes to reboot and hangs with black screen, anyone with any ideas?

Vista installation hangs after first reboot.
And obviously the whole partition does not have to be within the first 1024 cylinders - just the start. I had assummed the '1024 cylinders' rule would not apply because of the LBA translation process, but obviously the OS/2 Warp Connect v3 install process somehow bypasses LBA as part of the install process.

Install hangs in setup.
Attempted to install Server 23k on a lab machine, from DOS. After starting Server 23000 may not be like the earlier versions. winnt.exe from i386 the install hangs after it copies a couple dozen files and will not restart. I can install it if I first install XP pro and then install it from there.

IE6 Install hangs
COM from diskette 0 of the install set to it copy NLS.DLL and VIOCALLS.DLL from diskette 1 to it Boot from the install diskettes and watch the bottom of the screens for the option to drop to a command prompt. Insert your new diskette containing those 4 files and run SYSINSTX C: where C: is your intended OS/2 boot

NT install hangs after first reboot
When I go into Install.nlm and go ask it to scan for additional drives, Install hangs. I can still get out of it and perform a CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+ESC and reboot the server. When I reboot the server, it hangs on MAC.NLM (for long name support, correct?). When I take the new drives out of the equation after that,