Quote Originally Posted by Tim Novak
I used Partition Magic to create the partitions (400 meg swap and a 9 gig ext3) and to format them I used the default setting for the partitions.
Repeat after me:

Partition magic bad! cfdisk good!

I am not a PM user so I may be wrong but I'm guessing you have no linux swap. How to find out?

$ free -m|grep Swap

How to make a swap file?

mkswap /dev/hda2
swapon /dev/hda2

Check it again now:

$ free -m|grep Swap

Got swap? Yeah? Try the installer.
Of course.........I could be crazy.....