newbies linux adventure

[Alan Dayley]

There has got to be something really wrong with a piece of your hardware 
for a Linux install to fail so.  I have NEVER had a problem, other than to 
little drive space, installing Linux on any hardware that was not 
broken.  Perhaps you could share the error codes or descriptions with 
us?  At the very least it could help determine which hardware component is 
the trouble maker.

Alan

At 10:53 PM 11/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
>okay i had an old p1 133 mhz computer and i couldn't get linux installed 
>on it for some reason(hardware related) and EBo was gonna help me out with 
>it but something unfortunate happened to that box :( My friend
>hooked me up with another box it also has a p1 133 mhz and i dont know 
>what board it has, but i cant get linux installed on this either, most of 
>the hardware is same as old one(HDD, ram, floppy, cdrom, NIC, sound,
>video etc...). So my question is does anyone know where i can get some old 
>hardware that will work in this box that will work with linux, i am pretty 
>sure it has something to do with either the HD or the video card. okay i
>just remembered this one utility that inventorys your pc and tells you 
>everything so i will list the important stuff.
>
>main circuit board: BIOS: Award Software 4.50PG 09/07/95
>video: S3 Trio32/64 PCI (732/764) [Display adapter]
>HDD: Generic IDE hard disk drive (2.15 GB) -- drive 0 - i happen to 
>remeber this being a fujitsu but i cant remember which model
>
>if anyone knows why those wouldn't work or where i can get stuff to 
>replace them(cheaply if possible) i would appreciate it. BTW so far i have 
>tried to install SuSE, mandrake, and zipslack and bigslack
>
> 
>-thanx
>
>
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