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I could not get ANYTHING installed ( or even get the Gentoo LiveCD
booted!!) on this OLD 300Mhz system they gave me at work. So I booted
it with a knoppix CD in text mode and then started the Gentoo install
fromt there. Worked like a charm and it has been running for over 100
days with no problems.<br>
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So I guess to see if the hardware is really bad I would try a Knoppix cd? I *believe* they are better at covering hardware.<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Randy Clarksean</b> <<a href="mailto:rclark@lakesplus.com">rclark@lakesplus.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>I must be out to lunch ... as I am having serious install problems on one<br>particular set of hardware. I am beginning to think the hardware is jinxed<br>for some reason.<br><br>Configuration:<br><br>Iwill dual processor board (Xeon)
<br> [DP533 board, Intel 7505 chipset]<br>RAM: 2 GB (2 sets of 2 different brand 512 MB sticks)<br>2 IDE drives (80 GB IDE0 and 120 GB IDE1)<br>CD Burner<br>Plenty of cooling fans, etc.<br>No SCSI hardware, etc.<br>
NVidia AGP card (128 MB)<br><br>I have tried installing the following Linux Oses with little success<br><br>RH9 - crashes during the start of the install process<br>RH8 - will install, but when updating with apt-get ... gnome starts to
<br>crash.<br>Suse9 - crashed during install<br>Fedora Core 3 - crashes when starting to install software<br> (formats
drives, etc. fine; have done md5sum check on iso files)<br> (crashes
on different files; says issue is media, lack of space,<br> or
hardware related problem)<br> (set bios safe default values)<br><br>Has anyone ever had such difficulties in getting a system to install? I<br>REALLY need this system to get up and running. Some suggestions on possible
<br>trouble shooting tips, or ways to get past these crashes would be greatly<br>appreciated.<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Randy<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
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