Re: Installation problem

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:46:12 -0400
"James Marciniak" <jam libcom com> wrote:

> I have an old clone machine that I would like to install linux on, but
> I have attempted both 7.3 and 7.1 and both times the installation
> causes the machine to lock up just after it checks my HD partitions
> and then detects my floppy drive.
> 
> What is it checking next that could be causing my machine to crash
> with both distributions.

Anything is possible.

What type of hardware is it? That's where to begin, not trying to get us
to guess what you have that can crash things.

Could be controller, video, SCSI drives, CDROM, RAM, motherboard, floppy
drive, NIC, sound card, CD writer and a whole host of other things.

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