----> Bruno Buys wrote:
----> > Glenn Taylor wrote:
----> >
----> >> I am trying to install sarge on an old PC that has been running
RedHat ----> >> 8.0 for a few years now and I am having no luck with Sarge.
PC is an ----> >> AMD k6 300mhz on a Asus P5a-b board with 256mb RAM and
an 80g IDE drive. ----> >>
----> >> RH8 ran fine on this machine but I thought it was time for a
change. I ----> >> use it as a web/mail server to play with.
----> >>
----> >> Net install always boots fine but will fail randomly at different
steps ----> >> during the install. It may fail at choose keyboard or it
may make it as ----> >> far as installing base system. Most of the time
when it fails it will ----> >> report a failure on a red screen and let you
go back and repeat the step ----> >> that failed. If I keep repeating
steps it will proceed but fail again ----> >> at another random point.
Occasionally it just locks up.
----> >>
----> >> I have tried linux and linux26 with npapic acpi=off
----> >> I have tried the full netinstall CD and the business card CD
install. ----> >> I have tried different cds and even cd drive.
----> >> I have even tried the floppy install.
----> >>
----> >> Now for the really strange part. If I pop in Ubuntu Breezy Badger
----> >> install cd it will complete without a single error!
----> >>
----> >> Any ideas of what to try? This is more of a challenge at the
moment and ----> >> I hate to give up.
----> >>
----> >> Thanks
----> >>
----> >> Glenn
----> >>
----> >>
----> >>
----> > Is the netinstall image you're using up to date? Maybe downloading
the ----> > latest one can be an idea.
----> >
----> > You can open another terminal and cat some files in /var/log to see
----> > what's going on.
----> >
----> > I ran debian base system on a amd k6 300 with 64megs on an asus
----> > motherboard for sometime. The only trouble was when the hdd started
to ----> > age. The netinstall always worked ok.
----> >
---->
----> Tried 3 different CDs downloaded and burnt on two different PCs. All
----> three CDs have installed no problem on other PCs. Even tried floppy
----> install. Changed CD drives.
----> Tried 2 more installs just now.
---->
----> 1. tty1 stuck at Detecting Newtwork Hardware
----> last line in messages was insmod /lib/....../isofs.ko
----> last line in syslog was init: ^MStarting PID 486, console /dev/vc/2
----> ;'/bin/sh'
---->
----> 2. Got error message ! Load Installer components from CD
----> Failed to load installer components
----> Loading os-probe failed for unknown reasons, aborting
----> exact same lines in logs as above
---->
----> Glenn
---->