RE: Older Debian Linux version hangs when detecting hardware
Thanks for your prompt and helpful reply, Ron.
I have been looking at DSL this evening and it may be a good option, but
not if it, too, hangs up in the middle of loading without any error
messages. I've downloaded the relevant versiona nd plan to try it later
this week.
The Floppy Disks fail error occurs when booting Windows 98, but
afterwards, the floppy drives will read and write normally. There is a
5-1/4" amd a 3-1/2" drive, also a CD-RW and a CD-ROM, plus a 1GB SCSI
drive, also an external SparQ drive. The SCSI card also runs an HP
scanner. The system connects directly to a Netgear Wireless N router,
thence to cable Internet service. The motherboard firmware was updated
before the original Linux install to allow adding the second HDD. There
is a 10Gb HDD (C) and a 20Gb HDD partitioned into three logical drives
D, E and F. The older Debian system added a LILO boot partition, the
Linux OS partition, and a Linux data partition all below the C Windows
partition. I may need to repartition the drive with Partition Commander
10 (with its own Linux version) since I can't use the FDISK that came on
the Linux floppy boot diskette.
Corel Customer support pointed me to several kowledgebase articles, but
of course support for the product is long gone (the disks were dated
1999, but I don't recall the version number.) None of these has
anything applicable to the installation issue I'm having.
Error message? None, the installation simply hung. In the bottom right
of the screen is a "spinning disk" graphic that stopped spinning about
30 seconds into the third part of the installation, Detecting Hardware.
Regards
Martin Willcocks
Taylorsville, UT, USA.
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