Re: Won't install on an ol' Dell?

[Andrew Walbran <qwandor@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:37 pm, Eric Scott wrote:
> Hey;
> I just got ahold of an old Dell Dimension with a Celeron chip and a
> 566MHz processor.  I can't get anything to install on it (FreeBSD,
> Woody, Sarge, Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE).  Each installation seems to have
> a problem unrelated to the issue with the other.  Has anybody installed
> Debian on a similar system? Most of the time I get some sort of kernel
> panic or jibberish, then it reboots.
>     Thanx,
>     SigmaX
>

I run Debian sarge on a Dell Dimension V350 (Pentium II 350MHz) with no 
problems (well - nothing hardware-related anyway). I have also just installed 
sarge on a Dell Optiplex (Celeron 600MHz) for my church with no problems. 

Perhaps you could provide details of the error you are getting? Have you tried 
running memtest86?


Andrew Walbran