I tried using a boot floppy before I discovered, or rather Terry showed me,
the motherboard supports booting to CD.  Same problem, a slightly
different collection of error messages flashing by.
Choppy
At 03:05 PM 7/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
<em>>I've installed on boxes with 128 MB RAM before.  Never had a problem.  No
<em>>comments to lilo.  I hesitate to ask at this point, but have you tried
<em>>using a boot floppy to initiate the install?  I have a friend who could
<em>>not install (specifically) Red Hat 7.1 on a certain machine because of its
<em>>cdrom.  He's done SuSE and BSD on it without failure.  He used a boot
<em>>floppy to initiate the install, and RH 7.1 went on without incident.
<em>>There are instructions available for burning a downloadable
<em>>boot-floppy-image onto a floppy from DOS, so it'd be an easy thing to try
<em>>if it hasn't been done yet.
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