new 2011.6 install

[Alfanut]

Howdy!  Once my favorite OS, I drifted and I'll confess.  Once more, I managed to shoot myself in my foot.

My computer holds several hard drives now.  And I have learned over the years to leave things as they are.  Once I figured out to just unplug the power connectors to those other drives?  No way of screwing things up now.  OK, I downloaded the latest PCLOS, 2011.6, it's on CD.  One drive, which once held an older version of PCLOS but I installed when Mandriva was my target drive.

When I run the new PCLOS CD with a hard drive connected, the system gets to that certain point and just hangs up.  Nothing happens.  For a half hour and as long as my patience could handle it.  I shut down, pulled the power off that internal drive and tried again.  That new CD launched beautifully -- in Live CD mode.  Love it!  Now, down again and back to trying for another install.

Same, same.  I waited, had breakfast, took a walk and an hour later things were still on hold.  Nothing was happening and this was nowhere near any of my past experiences and, I am telling you, there have been dozens!  Just for the heck of it, I tried connecting various other hard drives.  With the same results.  That new CD works fine as long as there is no hard drive in my system but, once there is, it hangs up!

So?  Can anyone here on this Forum offer a clue?  The MD5sum checked out perfectly.  And the CD works perfectly as long as I have no other drive connected.  Strange?  Time to build yet another computer?  This one was recent!  No problems with any other drive nor OS install.  Windows XP Pro as well as three other Linux Distros.

Can you feel an old man's pain yet, folks?  And thanks for the input?  Ciao!

HQ

[Old-Polack]

Howdy!  Once my favorite OS, I drifted and I'll confess.  Once more, I managed to shoot myself in my foot.

My computer holds several hard drives now.  And I have learned over the years to leave things as they are.  Once I figured out to just unplug the power connectors to those other drives?  No way of screwing things up now.  OK, I downloaded the latest PCLOS, 2011.6, it's on CD.  One drive, which once held an older version of PCLOS but I installed when Mandriva was my target drive.

When I run the new PCLOS CD with a hard drive connected, the system gets to that certain point and just hangs up.  Nothing happens.  For a half hour and as long as my patience could handle it.  I shut down, pulled the power off that internal drive and tried again.  That new CD launched beautifully -- in Live CD mode.  Love it!  Now, down again and back to trying for another install.

Same, same.  I waited, had breakfast, took a walk and an hour later things were still on hold.  Nothing was happening and this was nowhere near any of my past experiences and, I am telling you, there have been dozens!  Just for the heck of it, I tried connecting various other hard drives.  With the same results.  That new CD works fine as long as there is no hard drive in my system but, once there is, it hangs up!

So?  Can anyone here on this Forum offer a clue?  The MD5sum checked out perfectly.  And the CD works perfectly as long as I have no other drive connected.  Strange?  Time to build yet another computer?  This one was recent!  No problems with any other drive nor OS install.  Windows XP Pro as well as three other Linux Distros.

Can you feel an old man's pain yet, folks?  And thanks for the input?  Ciao!

HQ

Are these IDE/PATA drives or SATA? If SATA are the controllers  set in BIOS to AHCI mode?

[Alfanut]

Finally figured it out!  Clicking on this and that until I had a response.  Yes, up and running now, right here!  And the same old home directory which once held PSLOS stuff, then became Mandriva is now back with PCLOS.

Happiness is!  Just click here and there and be surprised?  So it took me a while?  I'm happy.

Thanks?

HQ

[Tony]

Hi Alfanut, and welcome to the PCLinuxOS Forum 

" ...My computer holds several hard drives now.  And I have learned over the years to leave things as they are.  Once I figured out to just unplug the power connectors to those other drives?  No way of screwing things up now."

Please, also note the 'Drives' have a Data Cable plugged into them. They look 'Flat', and have a RED line on one side to help when aligning when pushing then in.
Maybe you have overlooked in your post that you have indeed 'pulled' the Data cables from the Drives with no Power leads, and didn't mention it. If not, please pull those Ribbon/Data cables from the Drives as Electronics need to be no more messy and confusing as it already is, although it is logical to the extreme 
Best wishes,
francis.

[Alfanut]

All is well, thanks guys! 

No problems with the rest of the hardware -- I've only been at this for about 30 years.  Starting with a TI-99/4A?  My current machine came from Tiger Direct in kit form and I put it together.  I know how this stuff should work?

My problem was with that CD.  Until I clicked another option.  And then waited.  But, I am there now!  I will say this about this latest PCLOS -- it was tougher to figure out and to install but, now that it is up and running?

LOVELY!  As expected!

Cheers, people!  And this should end my intrusion here into this friendly community!

Viva -- PCLOS!

HQ