When I rebuilt my computer all I kept was the original hard drive on which
was Storm Linux. Storm booted perfectly on the new hardware and all I
needed to do was compile into the kernel the necessary bits and pieces for
the new system.
I decided to use a spare partition to try installing the latest Hail
version from a CDR I burned. I got as far as three items of hardware being
recognised - an SMC EZ Ethernet card, ATI Xpert98 AGP graphics card and
AC97 sound chip. No problems here - the necessary Mach64 X server was
selected. The SMC card is easily supported using the Realtek driver. Note
that all hardware is working perfectly on the main partition.
The next screen I got was an error message:
'Something has gone wrong during the install. Please contact Stormix and
request tech support'
The error happens whether I use a graphical or text install.
I decided to try a couple of other distros - Connectiva and Best. Both
bombed out during install. Best complains about a resource being in use
and something about it cannot create /tmp.
I am using a Soltek SL-75KV2 motherboard which uses the VIA Apollo KT133+
chipset, and an AMD Duron 800 MHz CPU. I have 2 sticks of 128MB PC133
memory.
As I say, the strange thing is that Storm Linux (upgraded to Woody) works
beautifully on my main partition using the same hardware. I had ATA66
working when I used the 2.2.18 kernel, and currently have ATA33 with the
2.4 kernel.
Any ideas? It worries me if I will not be able to install Linux onto the
machine from a CD-ROM should disaster strike.
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Phillip Deackes
Using Storm Linux 2000
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