[linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

/proc/interrupt, maybe? or something like that...

Anne McCadden wrote:

>Let me know where the trash can is that you will be throwing the hard 
>drive into.  I could put it to good use and running RedHat 7.3 too.  
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>I have had intermitten problems with installing RedHat on larger hard 
>drives (>40gb) and I am not sure as to why.  I have almost the same 
>hardware that you have, but I am not doing a dual boot system.  I have 
>reinstalled and have been able to get it straightened out.  Some of the 
>techs at work have been running into simular problems.  We installed 
>RedHat on a combo mobo and XWindows wouldn't load.   After the techs 
>reinstalled a couple of times, they finally decided to choose another 
>video chipset than RedHat 7.3 was saying that it was and it worked, they 
>were able to launch Xwindows.  
>
>I was extremely happy that some of the techs at work have been doing 
>linux installs and using linux for web surfing and using Pan, my 
>favorite program.  We use Pan to download our favorite music and listen 
>to music while we work.  Things are looking better all the time.  
>
>Then they were trying to find the Device Mangler.  I couldn't find a 
>device manager of some sort on linux either.  I was able to find System 
>Information, but couldn't find details as to what video , sound, NIC, 
>modem, scsii cards and what IRQ's they are using.  Any  ideas?  ~Anne
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>Jami wrote:
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>>That didn't work either.  I have tried on two different sets of RH 7.3, and
>>still getting different errors  I guess that means that it is useless, and I
>>need to get a new HD, and throw that one away?
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
>>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 7:18 PM
>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
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>>>When you start the install, you get a page of options.  I
>>>believe the first one is "Press enter for a graphic
>>>installation."  One of the other choices is to type in "expert"
>>>as I recall.  Don't do that.  Type "linux mem=256m" and hit
>>>enter.  By the way, you said in your first post you had 512k of
>>>DDR memory - I assume that is 512M.
>>>
>>>Later in the install, you will be offered the opportunity to
>>>partition the disk with disk druid or let RedHat do it.  I
>>>would suggest one or two GB of swap and split the remainder of
>>>the disk about equally between "/"  and "/home", for
>>>simplicity.   I would use ext3 filesystem, rather than the
>>>older ext2 for / and /home; the swap filesystem will be "swap."
>>>120gb will take a while to format.
>>>
>>>Write down your root password.
>>>
>>>Good luck,
>>>bruce
>>>
>>>On Sunday 16 January 2000 05:00 am, you wrote:
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>>>>I am using a box that I put together with Red hat 7.3 with an
>>>>AMD XP 1700 (1,47 Gig processor)
>>>>The Linux Mem=64, and the Linux mem=128 I have no idea what
>>>>that is, or how to use it.  The one thing I know is that
>>>>Linux is partioning this drive out from c to i, and has made
>>>>it almost impossible to access, with anything but Linux.
>>>>Some of the partitions are no bigger then 1 meg -----
>>>>Original Message -----
>>>>From: "bruce" <bbales@xxxxxxx>
>>>>To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 5:27 PM
>>>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Linux has errors on setup
>>>>
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>>>>>Jami,
>>>>>You didn't give any information on release (RH7.3?),
>>>>>machine (old Compaq?), CPU (486 Intel?).
>>>>>
>>>>>I had a similar problem installing RH 7.2 on a SIS box with
>>>>>AMD Athlon 800 MHZ CPU.   I got it to install using "linux
>>>>>mem=64m" to start the install.  Even though I had 128m of
>>>>>memory, part of it was used by the graphics card and "linux
>>>>>mem=128m" didn't work for me.
>>>>>
>>>>>This is fairly common - after I posted my question and got
>>>>>the answer, I got nine emails asking if I had a solution.
>>>>>I posted the solution several places in about February.
>>>>>Let me know if this works.
>>>>>bruce
>>>>>
>>>>>On Sunday 16 January 2000 03:26 am, you wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>>I am trying to install Linux for about the 20th time on
>>>>>>my machine, this is a new machine, with an AMD XP 1700
>>>>>>Processor, and 512K DDR memory.  this Box has a 120 Gig
>>>>>>Hard drive. On set up, it keeps giving me Errors, I would
>>>>>>tell you what errors I get, but it gives me new ones
>>>>>>every time.  Most of the time it says that Linux can not
>>>>>>install such and such file, but occasionally, it comes to
>>>>>>in and wants to debug it. Almost every time results in
>>>>>>the same thing happening, Linux installation Stops.  I
>>>>>>have been successful with getting it on 3 times now, and
>>>>>>all three times it never boots into Linux.  after the
>>>>>>boot up page is gone the screen sets there and flashes
>>>>>>for probably 5 to 10 minutes, then shuts down. Any
>>>>>>suggestions as to what is causing this?
>>>>>>
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