Alfred von Campe wrote: > I waited overnight and it was still hung in the morning. My local > mirror is on the LAN, so it's not a network issue. hmm, is your package selection particularly complex? In my case I list hundreds of packages in my %packages section I don't have groups and stuff. I assume your using a stock CentOS install and you didn't put any of your own 3rd party rpms in the installation and update the comps.xml(?) file to include them? A P4 3Ghz is plenty to install CentOS, I install CentOS 5.2 at least on 2Ghz systems with 1GB or less ram(running in VMs), I do get about a 2-4 minute pause but nothing as severe as what you see. I'm not sure what to suggest..if your packages selection is complex try simplifying it. I believe what is going on during that stage is it's calculating all of the dependencies and stuff. I don't expect strace to be installed as part of the stage2 installer if it were it'd be interesting to know what exactly it's doing.. nate