newbies linux adventure

[Nancy Sollars]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Dayley" <alandd@consultpros.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 6:27 AM
Subject: Re: newbies linux adventure


Red 7x installers fail often

> 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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