On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:36 PM, Mat Branyon wrote: > > Gentoo: I love gentoo. My box does not. It likes to freeze up > (nothing moves, cant ssh in, and the led lights are blinking at me) > if > I try to install anything remotely large from source. This doesn't > always happen, but so far its only happened under gentoo. My computer > randomly lost power under Fedora though. Its probably a hardware > problem, and unrelated to the distro. Gentoo also has no simple way > of > installing binary files, understandably. >
I would seriously suggest checking the capacitors on the motherboard. I just went round and round with a computer a few months back that had this problem. How old is the computer you are doing this on? Shannon
