On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, C. Falconer wrote: > As for the booting problem... can you try poping out the sound card and > modem in the meantime? This is more to rule out some possibilities rather > than fix the problem.
I tried that and nothing changed, it still crashed in the same place. I tried also to load Mandrake 6.1 which one time would not make the hard drive bootable or create a boot floppy and the other time it crashed copying files. I then tried Red Hat 6.1 which both times crashed at various places in installing the packages. I don't know what EIDE controller I have. I always had trouble with this computer with Windows95 which I always assumed to be windows, but maybe it is the computer. I might try potato in a few days and see what that does. At least Debian has been consistent in what step it fails on. Any other suggestions on what could be causing the conflict? > Could it be a Pentium 133? or a Pentium 166 MMX ? there were no MMX cpus > lower than 166. My mistake. It is a 166 with MMX. I also use a Pentium 133 that runs DOS and I must have momentarily switched the numbers. Thanks for the advice, Janet > ---------- > From: Janet R. Wendorf[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 5 June 2000 1:43 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Install Problem - Fails on Boot > > Hello, > > I am new to Linux and looking for some help. I am trying to load > version 2.1 on a Pentium MMX 133. I can boot from the CD-ROM, it starts > loading, spews some messages and hangs on the last message of: > hdb: DF6910C(-D18)2, ATAPI CDROM drive > and absolutely refuses to go any further. If I leave it for an hour or so > the screen eventually goes black. I have a sound card, a modem, a video > card, no other extras. Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Janet > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > > >
