Hello Kamaraju,
Thank you very much for your reply. I'll take the time to investigate all the avenues you suggest and see what I can learn. On Saturday 03 November 2007 21:35, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > memtest - to check for bad memory. > badblocks - to check for bad blocks on the hard drive. > I dont know how check faults in other hardware other than replacing > it with a different one testing them. > > Pop in a Knoppix CD and see if it detects any of these or related > problems before proceeding with Debian. I'll check all this and report here, though I remember checking memtest before. I'll do it again. > Which image are you using? Are you using the net install image or > the CDs from Debian website or CDs supplied by a third party vendor > ...? I would suggest to use the latest net install image (of either > stable or testing) and see if you can overcome this hurdle. It's the latest 1 CD .iso from the debian site (4.0-rev1). I checked the md5 sums of the burned CD. > Log files. Have you checked the appropriate log files for errors? > For X related problems, I would look into > ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Other log files of interest are /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog > etc., > > I don't know Mandriva follows the same convention in terms of file > names, but you get my drift... Yes. I remember checking the logs at one time and didn't find anything helpful... but I certainly will check again. > To tell you the truth, I skipped your post initially since you were > asking problems related to Mandriva on a debian specific list. But > looking at your other post in different thread made me come back > here and offer my 2 cents. :) I had mentioned in the first sentence of my first post that I sought help with installing *Debian*, but the Mandriva problems seemed relevant, that's why I included them. Anyway: thanks for checking back on my post. :) > Are you using SATA by any chance? I remember seeing similar issue > with SATA hard drives but the problem went away once I used the > latest images. No. PATA. I believe my hardware is all plain, that was already mainstream a few years ago when I bought it. For the rest, see my reply to the other thread: "I value your time :) - Re: Other avenues to get help" Thank you very much. I'll check everything you suggest and come back to you later with more details. Blessings, -- Augustin http://minguo.info/ better election methods http://minguo.info/usa/ the USA FA/DP Free Association with Delegable Proxy: an internet experiment in democracy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
