Glad we could help and the story had a happy ending. May all your
adventures with Linux end this way.
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Mark
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Lance Dow wrote:
> Mark wrote;
>
> > >try reinstalling and this time don't do the HDD optimization. I don't
> > >think with a drive that big and a system as efficient as linux that you're
> > >going to really need to worry about optimizing, and I suspect that there
> > >is a small , but apparently noticable enough hardware conflict going on
> > >there. I also suspect that it will all evaporate as soon as you install
> > >without optimizing.
>
> And evaporate it certainly did. You were all correct in spotting that this
> problem was of my own making! In my defence I'll say I was distracted by the
> fact that the installer didn't recognise all my RAM. I entered the correct
> value, probably clicking the HDD optimisation, then clicking Ok without fully
> reading the note.
>
> It went like a dream when I did it properly! So I spent this evening playing
> around with the KDE desktop... looking forward to the months of learning ahead.
> Sigh!
>
> My thanks to all who helped out.
>
> Regards
>
> Lance
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