What happened while I was asleep?

[eculbert]

knoppix !!! Or Puppylinux, not sure if DSL has it. On
knoppix, at prompt instead of just letting it time out
or tapping return, type in 'memtest' and it will
start!


--- "Robert N. Eaton" <Motheaton28 at aol.com> wrote:

> Alan Dayley wrote:
> 
> > Test your memory.  I had bad RAM in a system a
> couple of years ago.  It
> > manifested as weird problems and hangs and then
> difficulty booting, etc.
> >  The biggest headache of the adventure was the
> slow corruption of the
> > hard drive file system resulting in the loss of
> some data.
> > 
> > Because Linux actually makes full use of your
> systems resources, it uses
> > all you RAM and expects RAM to perform correctly. 
> Windows is far more
> > "quietly tolerant" of RAM errors even though the
> RAM will continue to
> > corrupt things under that OS too.  At least that
> has been my experience.
> > 
> > Boot a Linux install CD and choose the memory test
> option.  Let it run
> > at least a full pass.  Any error at all can be a
> problem for the OS and
> > you should remove the offending module to run with
> less RAM or replace it.
> > 
> > Alan
> 
> Uuummm, and if one doesn't have the memtest option?
> In the past two 
> weeks I've tried to install Xandros twice, Fedora
> Core 6 twice, Kubuntu 
> twice, and Fedora 7 once (and upgraded once.) I
> didn't see a memory test 
> mentioned.  ????
> 
> Bob Eaton
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