[KLUG Members] New installation

[Mike Williams]

Well, remember when I said I had the Redhat 7.3 install figured out?  I
lied. My SuSE 7.1 will install just fine, but Redhat 7.3 can't seem to
write a partition table.  Every partitioning operation takes about 5
minutes, but seems to finish.  Once everything is done I get an error
that it can't reread the partition table from /tmp/hda because the
device is busy.  After that a fatal error: can't continue. 

I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the drive because it worked fine
under Windows 2000 until recently, and I can install my SuSE 7.1 without
any problems.  I've upgraded the BIOS to the most recent (which isn't
very), and I've tried the install on a much newer motherboard.  I've
also tried writing a new MBR to the drive from a DOS boot disk. Nothing makes
any difference.  This sound like a canidate for monthly install-fest?
Hardware details below.

AMD K6-2 500Mhz
128 Megs memory (PC133 running as PC100, I think)
ASUS P5-A (ALI super-7 chipset)
Cdrom is an ancient Toshiba 4X IDE, but it boots fine
IBM Deskstar GXP 20 Gig
Intel Pro100+ PCI NIC (82557 chip)

both drives are master of their own channel

-- 
Mike Williams <knightperson@zuzax.com>