On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 02:44 pm, Glenn Taylor wrote: >----> Bruno Buys wrote: >----> > Glenn Taylor wrote: >----> > >----> >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running > RedHat ----> >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge. > PC is an ----> >> AMD k6 300mhz on a Asus P5a-b board with 256mb RAM and > an 80g IDE drive. ----> >> >----> >> RH8 ran fine on this machine but I thought it was time for a > change. I ----> >> use it as a web/mail server to play with. >----> >> >----> >> Net install always boots fine but will fail randomly at different > steps ----> >> during the install. It may fail at choose keyboard or it > may make it as ----> >> far as installing base system. Most of the time > when it fails it will ----> >> report a failure on a red screen and let you > go back and repeat the step ----> >> that failed. If I keep repeating > steps it will proceed but fail again ----> >> at another random point. > Occasionally it just locks up. >----> >> >----> >> I have tried linux and linux26 with npapic acpi=off >----> >> I have tried the full netinstall CD and the business card CD > install. ----> >> I have tried different cds and even cd drive. >----> >> I have even tried the floppy install. >----> >> >----> >> Now for the really strange part. If I pop in Ubuntu Breezy Badger >----> >> install cd it will complete without a single error! >----> >> >----> >> Any ideas of what to try? This is more of a challenge at the > moment and ----> >> I hate to give up. >----> >> >----> >> Thanks >----> >> >----> >> Glenn >----> >> >----> >> >----> >> >----> > Is the netinstall image you're using up to date? Maybe downloading > the ----> > latest one can be an idea. >----> > >----> > You can open another terminal and cat some files in /var/log to see >----> > what's going on. >----> > >----> > I ran debian base system on a amd k6 300 with 64megs on an asus >----> > motherboard for sometime. The only trouble was when the hdd started > to ----> > age. The netinstall always worked ok. >----> > >----> >----> Tried 3 different CDs downloaded and burnt on two different PCs. All >----> three CDs have installed no problem on other PCs. Even tried floppy >----> install. Changed CD drives. >----> Tried 2 more installs just now. >----> >----> 1. tty1 stuck at Detecting Newtwork Hardware >----> last line in messages was insmod /lib/....../isofs.ko >----> last line in syslog was init: ^MStarting PID 486, console /dev/vc/2 >----> ;'/bin/sh' >----> >----> 2. Got error message ! Load Installer components from CD >----> Failed to load installer components >----> Loading os-probe failed for unknown reasons, aborting >----> exact same lines in logs as above >----> >----> Glenn >---->
Old machine? burn the CD's at a slower speed than normal so that the CD drive can read them. This has been the case with me on several old machines. The slower the burn speed the better, and they will read on just about any old CD drive. HTH -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. .......................................Henry David Thoreau *********************************************** Debian Sarge 3.1.......... loving it ___________________________________________________________ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
