At 10:22 AM 4/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>You might try removing any extra cards in your system. In my case, I
>removed 8MB of memory, leaving just the 2MB which is soldered on the
>motherboard, which caused the system to hang instead of rebooting, so I was
>able to read the messages more easily. You might try removing your
>harddrive completely, to see how it behaves, since the harddrive is not
>necessary for the installation disks to boot.
>
>You might also look at http://www.linuxhardware.net/ to see if anyone else
>has a similar system and has had the same problem.
>
>Russell
Thankyou, Russell, advice noted for future experimentation. Right now I'm
reluctant to go into radical surgery. Also, the Debian Linux I reinstalled
last night with better success than usual actually has a feature, aliens,
which allows it to import packages from, *gasp* redhat! so, I may go that
route in the end. Dunno, I'm brain dead from all the choosing "gibberish a
or b? default? May not work, use /bin/gibberish to fix it later!" that
I've just been through. I'm a long way from my xfree86 windows!
At least the familiar stuff I'm using now still works.
I was somewhat shocked to realize, which I knew but didn't realize, that I
can use this stuff to further a dream of mine, providing low end mail and
surfing via modem dialup to ppl with survivor pc's of the very slow kind.
It's a long term dream, but I'm close enough to smell it... If I had the
knowledge, I could have it in place in days or weeks, but it's going to
take months to acquire the know-how.
bye,
Yolanda
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