Mandrake install freezes before install program loads

[bfarnell at gte.net]

Warren Togami wrote:
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> Redhat 7.1 has the same problem for you folks?
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My problem was with the last version of Mandrake.  No problem with RH
7.0. but I haven't tried 7.1 yet.  Mine hung when it was detecting IDE
devices.  The other guy who reported a problem to Mandrake said the same
thing.  It's a bug in the install program when it encounters a
particular piece of hardware, if I had to make a guess.  I did manage to
use the 'live update' feauture to use the same CDs to upgrade, but it
took more than 8 hours (I went to sleep so I don't know when it
finished) and it ran so slowly afterwards that I had to re-install the
old version.  That doesn't mean there was a problem with the CDs though,
the live update feature was pretty experimental at the time according to
Mandrake.  I can't remember if I did the checksums or not, I think I
did.

Brian