[ale] Installation wierdness

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim, try changing your install method.  If you're trying to boot the CD,
is there still the create-the-three-floppies-and-boot-from-those
method?  See if that makes any difference.



- Jeff

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:42, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I'm trying to install Win2K (required by application constraints, grr)on
> an HP Pavilion celeron 500 w/ 196M Ram. It chokes up at about the same
> point during the initial copying of the bootstrap stuff onto the hard
> drive. It complains about not finding file foo. Each time it is a
> different file. I have use two different installation CD's. Neither is a
> copy of the other. One was purchased today just for this. The HP WinME
> restoration CDs croak about the same. RedHat 8 went on with out a hitch.
> Slackware 8 runs fine from the CD. I'm doing a mke2fs -c -c on the drive
> now (30 gigs take a LOOOOONG time)
> 
> I've changed out the ram.  No luck. CPU barely warm (heatsink anyway). I
> don't think its heat as I compiled the src.rpm for kernel 2.4.18 on it.
> 
> Ideas?
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