Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 0 Location: U.S.A (west)
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 8:15 pm Post subject:
Dude,
if you have a different disk, the first thing I would do is try to install it on that. It looks/sounds like your packages are trying to write to a bad sector on the drive or an improperly partitioned file system. What is your partitioning schema like? (i.e. /boot =?MB, root=?MB swap =?MB? Is it ext2 fs? or did you try ext3 or riserfs?
Personally I would bet the house on Hardware issues - leaning towards a bad physical disk - then perhaps a memory slot or IDE SCSI channel.
I know it sounds broad, but....
If the Mandrake install started puking after 150 days and your SURE nothing happened to the O/S (overwrite a critical binary or something...)
Joined: 26 May 2002 Posts: 16777206 Location: Bi Mon Sci Fi Con
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2002 11:41 am Post subject:
try the "noathlon" option and see if it flys.
Alternatively try a distro that'll allow you to manually set up the kernel at install. I've just started playing with Gentoo www.gentoo.org and it's almost like doing Linux from scratch.
It may help.
ps Add a /boot partition 50M should be more than enough. I've found this out the hard way in recent weeks. It'll save you some of the grief I had.
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