Debian install problems

[Blake Barnett]

Glad to hear you tracked the problem down.

They only computer store I've purchased things from in Mesa is PC Club,
they had reasonable prices...  They're on University and Alma School.

Good luck!

On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 13:01, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Hi Blake,
> It has already been kicked and shipped across the country UPS ground 
> with no packing in the box. My guess now is that it got shipped to me 
> because the previous owner got frustrated because of memory problems.
> 
> I created a boot floppy with memtest86.bin and sure enough errors 
> galore. I then pulled out the two SIMMs in bank one and two and then put 
> in the ones from 3 and 4. Half as much memory but the test now passes. I 
> haven't loaded the OS again yet but hoping I don't have other problems 
> as well.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Is Memory etc. in Mesa a good place to get memory? They quoted 19 for a 
> 16m 72pin EDO and 29 for 32m.
> 
> Eric
> Blake Barnett wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like you need to run some diagnostics.  I would try a boot disk
> > and run 'memtest86', I suspect your memory or your motherboard.  Also
> > check for heat issues, are all your fans running?  I've seen some
> > strange things caused by overheating CPUs.
> > 
> > As a last resort, pull the disk out and put it in a different machine
> > (assuming you have one) and run some diags on it...
> > 
> > Or, just kick it.  ;)
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:25, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm having a lot of problems with a debian 2.2 install. First, the 
> >>hardware is a cyrix 686 with an intel mainboard and an ide hard drive 
> >>and a CD rom. I installed Debian a couple of times and was attempting to 
> >>get the network running and things went weird.
> >>
> >>All of a sudden after running a couple of hours the permissions of 
> >>things started to go weird. On boot, unix.o couldn't create file and 
> >>reported the filesystem was read only. Later when I was trying to 
> >>apt-get install isapnptools the apt-get executable had no execute 
> >>permissions, something like S--------. Other programs would not execute 
> >>either and I was forced to shutoff the power as I couldn't shutdown or 
> >>do anything. I had used the disk 1 successfully previously to install 
> >>dhcpcd which removed pump.
> >>
> >>Next I booted with the recover floppy but when it mounted the / 
> >>partition and tried to boot but the kernel panic'ed with a checksum or 
> >>something. At this point I probably should have run fs2chk or something 
> >>but chose to reinstall.
> >>
> >>The reinstall seemed to go fine until I reached the point of the base 
> >>system install and the system won't untar the base_2.2gz. This is a 
> >>floppy install for the kernel as the BIOS doesn't have the CD boot 
> >>support. I used the boot and root floppies but then try to install the 
> >>rest of the system off the CD. The CD seems to work fine but as said 
> >>before has problems on the untarring the base2_2.gz. I searched the /var 
> >>dir but could find an installer.log or something and nothing in messages 
> >>that helps. Because of the previous filesystem corruption? I suspected 
> >>the hard disk but there could be other problems. The install disks are 
> >>the cheapbytes silver non-cdr disks and I have used them for other 
> >>installs and loading 2.2 software so I don't suspect them but perhaps 
> >>tthey are bad or the CD? I really don't have a clue other than something 
> >>very non normal is going on. Can I get a complete functioning bootable 
> >>system out of only the floppies or do I need the base portion off the 
> >>CD. I don't have a CD burner so I have to get install disks elsewhere.
> >>
> >>Any help, ideas, etc. welcome.
> >>
> >>Eric
> >>
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