CentOS - Jul 2009 - Anaconda crashing on new machine

Hi!

I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events
during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that
there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes.

the first time I got all the way through package selection (selecting
at the individual package level) before it crashed.

the second time I made a mistake in partitioning and  did BACK several
screens to fix it, then when clicking NEXT several times to go forward
to where I had been, it blew up.

then it blew up while partitioning.

then it blew up there again, though at a different place.

I don't think there should be any problem with making /home 200 gigs,...
doesn't ext3 have a limit something more like a terabyte or more?

it's a gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 board with an AMD Phenom II X2 550 clocked
at 3.1 Ghz, and 4 gigs of g.skill ram (which has run for several hours
under memtest86+ with no problems.)

Anyone got any helpful suggestions!

BTW, I ran 3 different live-Cd distros on it today, for several hours,
just looking for problems, and didn't find any, so I'm thinking the
hardware is reasonably stable. (one always wonders, when it's all 
brand-new.)

Thanks!

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fred smith wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events
> during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that
> there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes.
Crash how? does it freeze? When I've seen anaconda crash it
usually produces a stack dump which can point to where it crashed
exactly.

I have had anaconda crash a lot while using LVM over the years during
installation, do you happen to be trying to setup LVM during
installation? If so try not using LVM and see if that helps at all.

nate