System Freezing when Installing RHEL 6.2 on VMware Vsphere ESX 4

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Issue

The machine freezes during the creation of the ext4 partitions and doesnt move from this point.

Environment

System has 2 CPUs, 16GB RAM and 300GB HDD.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
VMware Vsphere ESX 4

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