Hi Greg and Douglas:
Many thanks for the additional information about diagnostics and the
older Debian Linux. There is probably a hardware issue with one of the
floppy drives that is somehow corrected once Windows 98 has fully
booted, but which still affects booting from a floppy disk. I did try
the memory test on the latest ubuntu release and no errors appeared in
over a half hour, so I don't think the memory is bad yet. I have a
friend who is looking out for some 128MB 72-pin SIMMs for me, which
would allow me to run a less lean version of Linux e,g, ubuntu.
However, the earlier Debian release sounds like a good option, and the
explanation about how wp8 runs and what modules it needs was very
helpful. I will look at the grml CD and the hardware diagnosis disk
that Greg recommended and see if they can establish the problem. What
is or was Debian woody?
Doug, it's tin whiskers, by the way, and I don't think that's the
problem, as they are worse when there is no lead in the solder (probably
not true of 1988 vintage computers!) There doesn't appear to be any way
to enter a non-GUI mode with the Corel distribution when booting from
the CD, and since it does not fully load, I can't run any diagnostics
from it either. My friend is also an OpenBSD and GNU guru, so I can ask
him about the options you mentioned.
Regards,
Martin Willcocks
Taylorsville, UT, USA.
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