I wouls suggest that you do a low level for mat before installing Linux.
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On 5/4/98, at 3:47 PM, Peter J Spalding wrote:
>Hello! I currently am running Linux on two of three machines in my
>household. My LapTop is straight Linux, my Tower CPU is a duel Linux/Win95.
>Two days ago, a friend of mine gave me a computer he doesn't use anymore. I
>took it and decided to use it as a server or something...
>So I proceeded to wipe the HD and all.
>Next, I insert the BootUp Floppy and proceed to do a normal install. It
>gets to a point, and then stops.
>It is a Packard Bell Multimedia computer. 486, with 32 megs of ram.
>Here is the boot up list (last 11 lines)
>
>Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096k size
>Hda: Conner Peripherals 170MB - CP30174E, 162MB w/32kB Cache, CHS=903/8/46
>Ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 (just so you can read 0X1F0-0X1F7,0X3F6) on irq 14
>Floppy drive(s) fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is an 8272A
>Md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
>Scsi : 0 hosts.
>Scsi : detected total.
>Partition check:
> hda: hda1
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>
>Then it just stops right there. Can somebody give me an idea on how to fix
>this? Thanks
>Peter J Spalding
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