Re: Trubles installing Red Hat 7.1 and failure install

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 11:32:32 +1100 M Parcheur <parcheur ifrance com>
spit forth:

> Until recently I was running on a Pentium III 800Mhz with 384 Mb of
> RAM (graphic card SIS6326).
>  I easily installed Mandrake 7.2; everything was perfect. 
> When I tried to install RH 7.1, it was the beginning of a nightmare.
> Day after day, I tried: cdrom install,
>  bootdisk, HD install,mode text, ... Each time, it fails: either
> freezing or crashing. It always occured while 
>  packages installing. And worse, I can't reinstall Mandrake on the
> same PC.
> At the same time, absolutely no problem with Windows 98.
> In order to check RH 7.1 and the cdroms, I decided to try a RH 7.1
> installation on an other PC:
>  Pentium II, 300Mhz, 128Mb of AM. It was a surprising and very easy
> installation.
> If I'm disapointed, I didn't lose hope to find a solution with some
> help.
> What is to be done ? What is to be checked on the stubborn PC ?
> Many thanks for any help.
> 
> M. Parcheur

Look for a bad ram module. 'Doze isn't smart enough to know when it has
bad ram and will continue working until it totally locks up (with that
much memory it could take a long time to lock it up).

Download and test memory with memtest86 (I think freshmeat has it) and
try that first. I've had that problem twice and both times were due to
memory. If that tests OK, look at other hardware: remove or switch
drives around, remove boards, change locations of boards in slots, etc.
It's almost certainly hardware if every attempt is failing, including
going back to something that previously worked..

-- 
Sometimes you have to stride boldly up to life,
look it straight in the eye, and say "huh?"