Re: [Sheflug] Debian 3.0

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 21:20 +0000, Imran Javeed wrote:
> Installed the latest version of debian on a IBM PL300 running a PII
> 350mhz 128mb ram, 6GB HDD, on board intel nic, S3 trio on video,
> crystal on board sound, usb.

Latest version of debian - do you mean "woody", or one of the releases
currently in testing?

> Everything runs ok, I create all my partitions and modules fine, its
> when I come to the point of installing the base system I run in to
> trouble, at this point debian  creates /instmnt mounts it to the cdrom
> after creating a package list and starts to install the base .deb
> packages until it reaches one of them(these are different each time)
> hangs then after a while claims the file is corrupt when I know for
> definate it isn't, I've tried on another machine different spec but it
> installs ok.

Sounds like a memory problem.

Two things to try - first, try running memtest86 on it. Some Debian CDs
have this as a boot option, but I can't remember which. You can stick it
on a floppy or something, though.

Second - when you get to the lilo: prompt when trying to install, enter
something like "linux mem=64" (it's documented on one of the boot prompt
screens, I'm sure). If it works when you do that, it's either faulty ram
or (more possibly) a very strange on-board video setup (I'm thinking
shared video ram that Linux isn't detecting or something).

Cheers,

Alex.

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