I actually think it is unlikely to be the harddrive. As long as when you install a new distro you are deleting any existing partitions and you choose to check for bad blocks when creating the new partition filesystems. you are getting a clean disk. All IDE disks have onboard firmware/hardware that totally abstracts from the physical disk issues.
My guess is that you probably have marginal memory which seems to cause the most woes. I would suggest using memtest86+ or somesuch (knoppix has one in the boot menu) and let it run for a while. On 5/6/06, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have an old box I try out different versions of distros on. I recently stuffed it up in some way I do not understand, although I suspect it was when I tried to install the latest Knoppix onto my drive (install not just run). Now with only a couple of exceptions every distro I try to install either will not even begin, or will install part way then crash, or install fully but refuse to open. Even Windows will not install. I have had someone check my bios out and it is OK. It appears as though Knoppix or something else may have left something on the drive that is mucking it all up. Is there some way I can totally wipe the drive clean and start again from fresh? John. And thanks to those who sent advice concerning my ongoing issue with a flash drive. I will soon try it all out and get back to you. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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