> When I bought my 3200 several months ago I immediately wiped it clean and
> tried to install Red Hat 5.0. The install failed, so I bought an
> InfoMagic CD and tried Slackware, and it also failed. Recently I took a
> shot at installing Red Hat 5.1, again to no avail.
>
> In each case thre problem was this: installation would begin normally, but
> several megs into the process it would pause and eventually just die. I
> think this is the only symptom of the failure.
>
> I had these results when I wiped the 6 gig hard drive and then created
> parttions. There should have been no problem with space, I don't think.
> Can anyone speculate on why it dies like that?
During my installation of Debian 2.0, I disabled the BIOS powersave
options and didn't have any problems.
My steps were:
1) Used Win95 to Empty trash, Defrag, empty Trash and then FIPs to
a recreate primary 500 meg C:\ for Win95 binaries without losing data
b with linux fdisk on a rescue floppy, made 1500 extended partition
C.a 500 meg logical partition, later formated under Win95
to serve for D: drive data common to Win95 and Linux
d: the remainder for the Linux installation
2) FTP under Win95 the 5 essential Debian installation files,
some 10ish megs to the D: drive
3) Using the Debian installation menu, did the base installation.
4) Did the remainder of installation download overnight by FTP,
automated by the Debian dselect package.
MarvS
MarvS
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