(clug-talk) new box - linux install problems

[Bev Broadhurst]

Hi gang. I've recently purchased a new box, specs as follows. Pentium 4, 1.8 Gh on a Gigabyte motherboard 256 Mb ram 2 hard drives of 40 Gb each  NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 video card with 64 Mb ram Windows XP (I still need it for my accounting software) on its own 5 Gb partition on the first hard drive. I have tried to install Debian on the second drive where I previously had it on my old system. Got as far as installed the base system and rebooted. Messages got to the point where it was freeing up unused kernal memory and just hung. I then tried to install Red Hat 7.3 on several partitions on the first drive and everything seemed to go fine untill I rebooted again. This distro got just about all the way to starting X and then the screen kept flickering and eventually I got the following message. INIT: Id "X" respawning too fast. disabled for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes this was repeated. Does anybody have any ideas for me? Thanks in advance. Regards Mel