Leo4All v3 Freezes DURING installation

[baddelini]

So after much hardware replacing (SATA HDD and CDROM) I got through to the actually installation with mouse.

 

I'm a complete noobie at this and was just troubleshooting off of hunches and gleans of information, but I've hit a wall.

 

Seems like no matter what I do, after the DVD verifies and starts installing, it freezes (no mouse movement) when the progress bar is about an inch in (anywhere from "1hr40" to "1hr20" left in estimated time).

 

I don't have enough memory for it to be the memory problem (running 1gig of mem).

 

MoBo: Asus A8V-E SE

Memory: 1gig (2x 512)

HDD: Seagate 500gig SATA

CDROM: Samsung SATA DVD RW

 

I don't know what other info you need, but I haven't been able to find anyone with this problem that knows how to fix it. I figure if I can get to this installation screen, I should be able to get it running on my system, but can't figure out what error I"m running into, or how to even log it. Please help!!!

 

Edit:

 

Last thing in the log before crash: Initializing new flat-package receipt.

started (uid 96)

Opened receipt database on '/Volumes/Misc/' with schema 17

Extracting....

 

 

After it starts extracting, it freezes. Please Help!

 

Update 1: I've gotten the installation to go all the way through, but I had to install on old ATA HD?, which obviously gets stuck at 'waiting for root device' when I try and boot. So frusterating. Any idea why it freezes up on my brand new SATA HD? I'm currently trying to see if this disk cloner will do the trick by copying the ATA to the sATA. Wish me luck!

 

Update 2: No dice on drive cloning. It locked up just like installations, which makes me think something is going on with my SATA drive. But I don't know anything about sata to know where to start, Could definitely use some help on this.

 

Update 3: Returned and replaced HD with new one thinking maybe I just had a bad HD, but that's not that case. Sometimes the installation bar goes half way, sometime only like an 1/8th, but the fact is it freezes every time when I'm trying to install to sata HD. I don't know much about sata, but can you have two sata drives hooked up to the same port on the mobo like you can with IDE? If so I can try and track down a chord that lets me do that (ones that came with HDD/DVDROM only have two ends and are both plugged in to their respective SATA1 and SATA2 slots on my MoBo.