you know....since I have started using linux...I think my system as crashed probably about 6 times give or take... most all fo them were hardware! Once I had exactly the problem you describe...my system was running... doing "its thing" and power went out (while I wasn't home) then came on again 2 days later my kernel wouldn't recompile and my RAM tested bad (and I could never get a DIMM to work in that mothboard) then even before that I had my redhat system working as a server on the network.... ran for 68 days straight (thats only 68 because 68 days prior there was a power outage) when my hard drive had a mechanical failure! then about a month ago (same motherboard as earlier) my motherboard stopped working right! these have all been within the past 6 months!!! only once did I have a software related crash...due to a package I installed when I upgraded to unstable that was a very early releace and caused my system to not unmount filesystems on reboot/halt (so I started rebooting an alot trying to track down the problem and debug it...killed my system) any other crashes I have had were just plain my fault (ie forcing it to do something
that it warned me about while logged on as root) The moral: 1) don't buy cheap hardware, pay the extra $20 to get the stuff that works (ie stay away from BIOSTAR motherboards...buy ASUS.... or when you se that 200 MHz processor packaged with a motherboard for a mere $150 (at the time it was a VERY good price)...don't buy it!) 2) get a UPS....they are lifesavers (I got a nice one 1.5 kVA for under $300... it has already saved my system 2 times!..only had it a month!) 3) when everything is working...be careful when you are root :) -Steve Michael Acklin wrote: > At 10:58 AM 4/30/98 -0400, you wrote: > > > >I hate crashes/...had one too many myself > > > > I did want to clear one thing up. It wasn't Debian that crashed. I > had a > power off/on that caused the crash. Apparently, sendmail was delivering a > message right in the middle of the power spike and took out just about all > the exec files on my system. > > I have had no problems with Debian at all with system hangs or > crashes, > other than something I did. I have been VERY Happy with linux and Debian. > In fact I have had the system up without interuption for over 2 weeks. > Can't say that about Windoze. I couldn't keep Win95 up over 4 hours without > a crash. > > But thanks for all the messages and the help on this subject. I will > be > finishing up this evening. Someone was mentioning that I should use the > script to upgrade. But I have nothing on my system to upgrade, so thought > instead of running the Debian 1.31 complete installation, I would go ahead > and go to 2.0's installation disks. > Again, thanks for all your help! > > ________________________________ > Mike Acklin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) > Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3a mQCNAzG30VYAAAEEAK8aj0pclro6ULfzim7TN0Y2FeNtzJKkA9rNZ8KGim3N+ULO 1dn4tfIqymSNDQLc/SDCvliTDP9vodSSYfQaovHE2wWE6n5igGIhA3RqyAnX9ctl 4wPI5FYJHHhsl2OsKJLui1TbTo6uJul3vG4U9CnopYscEbHm+Hxvn0zebBV9AAUR tCVTdGVwaGVuIEouIENhcnBlbnRlciA8U0pDQGRlbHBoaS5jb20+iQCVAwUQMcz2 fnxvn0zebBV9AQFb2QP+OiFDvDvuuomwdZns+pQTVqOu5zy3wdlyQki4Mo/X+5qY Nmj0s4qjfowaimj69db6w6jSvzeEY5gnlM92NI5dj6qliJScBVlRNBRffsHkvHkk C27LjUtVYkF3j30wyCwdzNe0FhRYBsz5F+i78ZSPrxlUkOvfFBUgAo2ZFwlwS4k= =z4IB -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]