Re: [Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom

[James]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:58:56 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Sunday 24 February 2002 02:19 am, James wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:42:20 -0500
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> > Devon,
> >    yep screens seem logical in order etc.  May try the libretto with a
> > 500meg drive.  (still have the original one.) As for the twinhead....
I
> > also encountered a simular problem when I had used an adapter and hung
> > the hdd off of a desktop.  When I placed it back into the twinhead, it
> > hung when trying to clear unused ram.  The kernel there was 2.2.19
> > (from the RH 7.0 update)  Heck this is a junk box so to speak.. could
> > it be bad ram?
> 
> Bad ram is always a possibility of course. Have you tried running a 
> memory tester on the machine? Info available here:
> http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/
> 
> Was the desktop the same architecture as the laptop? If the desktop was 
> an i686, for example and the laptop a i386, the installer would have 
> installed an i686 kernel and glibc. If that's the case, it would hang 
> during boot, most likely.

I reinstalled the i386 versions of them. and removed the i686. as for
memtest.... it's been running for about 9hrs now. (thourough but
slowwwwwwwww)


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