> > > I am begining to believe that there is some sort of hardware problem with > > > your > > > box or it is an upgraded version which was a -140 in it's previous life, > > > but my > > > -140 is rock solid with Leigh's 2.4.19 kernel - once it's up, that is. > > > I will leave it running tonight to see what happens,
[snip] > The machine was working fine under AIX when it was decomissioned. It > had some issues with a disk going bad due to heat (blocked vents). But > once they were cleared there were no issues. I am going to try the > other machine. I'll keep my finger's crossed. > > MikeMartin An update (Sucess!!!): After jogging some people's memory I found out that this machine has a PCI token ring card (which I wasn't using) because the on-board ethernet went flaky. This certainly helps explain my intermitent network, and quite possibly the short up-times before crashing. As we guessed - a hardware problem. Is there any way (jumper ?) to disable the onboard ethernet? I may try not loading the modules for it and see if the machine becomes stable. Would a standard PCI ethernet card work as a substitute (likely won't netboot)? Now the success: I put Leigh's boot floppy and the Woody root floppy (from debian.yorku.ca mirror) into the second machine at noon today. By 1pm I had a fully installed, configured and self-booting installation of Woody on a 43p-140. By 1:30 I had it re-pinned to "testing" and "dist-upgrad"ing. It was finished and running great when I left work. Since the machine is at work, I don't have much time to mess with it, (since that's not my job!) but I will try in the next week to test Sven's d-i disks on a second hard disk. It's the least I can do for the help you've all given. Thanks! MikeMartin
