On Tuesday 02 October 2007 1:58 pm, Davin Pearson wrote: > (2) I suspect that the cause of the failures could be the hard drive > which is 40 GB. Perhaps Red Hat Linux version 9 being old does not > expect such a large hard drive.
There are many more modern distros for you to chose from and many places/people in Christchurch who could help you get one. If you are new to Linux I would recommend trying either Mepis, Kubuntu or Ubuntu > > (3) A final note to this message is that fact that it does > successfully boot up about one time in ten. But this is hardly > satisfactory for serious use! Damn right there. > > Could I bring my computer along to a meeting of your user group for > someone brainy enough to diagnose my problem? Yes that is always welcomed but you may find with another more modern distro you may get more success. Rob
