newbies linux adventure

[KevinO]

I agree with Thomas... Try different memory.

robert jorgenson wrote:
> 
> okay first thing i started messing around with the zip/bigslack and i could boot just fine to both of them from the boot disk...but when i use the .bat file they inckude it
> fails during loading. I dont know whats up with that it dont make sense....so when i found out i could boot from the zipdisk i unzipped bigslack and booted into it but it
> wasn't working right most likely because of some of the files not being unzipped(i got a few warnings when unzipping them) i will try pulling everything out installing
> one of the fresh distro's. Also everytime i try to install mandrake it says something about installation aborted abnormally and it  just stops and shutsdown...it doesn't say
> why it failed or anything.
> 
> 11/2/01 9:56:39 AM, "Thomas Mondoshawan Tate" <phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Richard L. Proctor wrote:
> >> On Thursday 01 November 2001 10:53 pm, 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
> >>
> >> Try RedHat
> >
> >Well... that's a rather counterproductive statement, isn't it? He's having
> >problems with the Linux kernel and/or a hardware device -- not the
> >distribution. Trying yet another distribution won't have much of a
> >difference, I'll wager. Besdies, he's tried zipslack and bigslack
> >(typicially v2.0 to v2.2 of the Linux kernel), and SuSE and Mandrake
> >(typicially v2.2 to v2.4 of the Linux kernel), which would logicially prove
> >that it's a hardware issue, NOT a software issue.
> >
> >So... My suggestion is that you pull out all non-essential parts from the
> >computer and attempt to boot one of the distros -- doesn't matter which one,
> >as long as it doesn't reboot, you'll know it's one of the cards you pulled
> >out. If it does the same rebooting thing, chances are it's a core part of
> >the system hardware.
> >
> >It sounds to me like it's awfully like a memory problem. Try downloading a
> >memory testing program (memtest86 comes to mind) and checking it.
> >
> >One question: is this a hand-built machine, or a prebuilt one? If it's
> >prebuilt, what is the model number and manufacturer of the machine?
> >
> >--
> >Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
> >phoenix@psy.ed.asu.edu
> >http://tank.dyndns.org
> >
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