El mié, 18-10-2006 a las 09:32 +0200, David Suna escribió: > Yes I tried installing each distribution more than once with the same > results. Try also with Knoppix 5.0 or higher it is excellent to detect and check hardware configuration at booting. If it successfully boots to the graphical mode, then you can also easily check sound and that all your drives appear and if they are writuable. You also may check that the disks´ cables( IDE, SATA) and jumpers are well configured and connected and how they appear at the BIOS. Try different configurations. It does matter. Your Etch problem sounds like that. > > David Suna > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Omer Zak wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 08:55 +0200, David Suna wrote: > > > >> I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very frustrating > >> time installing linux on it. I have tried installing ubuntu > >> workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success but with > >> different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with a Gigabyte > >> 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA hard disk and > >> a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video and LAN with an > >> additional network card in the box. Below are details of the errors > >> that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a hardware > >> compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of the moon. > >> Any help would be much appreciated. > >> > > > > The thing, which I notice is that different distributions have > > completely different problems. > > Did you try to install the same distribution twice, at different times, > > to see if the reported errors get reproduced? If they are different, > > then I would suspect overheating. > > > > Then, try to rule out shorts (such as a fallen screw) and overheating. > > Then suspect defective motherboard and/or memory chips. > > > > For general troubleshooting advice: http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > > --- Omer > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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