Usually there shouldn't be any problem with installing linux on a secondary slave. And since the base install is over, that hints the problem is not with that. May be the CD might have gathered scratches or something.
On 7/23/06, pradee_p@sancharnet.in pradee_p@sancharnet.in wrote:
Whether the free electron can be installed on the second IDE hard disk, which is configured as secondary slave. I have tried but the packages cannot be installed. After the base installation when the system asks for CD it hangs!!