I am having an installation problem which has me baffled. I will admit up front that I am a novice with linux, so it may be something dumb that I am overlooking. I have an older Gateway P90 box w/80MB RAM, a 3.25GB IBM DeskStar HD, an ATI Mach64GX video, and a 3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 NIC. I have been having problems installing 3 different distros, Red Hat 6.2, Mandrake 7.0, and Storm Linux 2000. The latter 2 I got for free from a magazine. The problem I am having is that (1)at varying points during the install, the system will freeze, or (2)after a successful installation will freeze during the reboot, or (3) after a successful installation and reboot, the system will freeze after running for a short time. It seems independent of whether I install X. In the case of 2 or 3 above, if I hit the reset button on the box, linux starts to boot, does an fsck and basically tells me that my filesystem has been trashed. Also, the installation process tells me that I have very little memory and if, after installation, it successfully reboots, the dmesg file reports only about 15MB of RAM. On the other hand, I am able to install Windows (NT, 98, 95, 2000) successfully and run it with no problem. Also, Windows reports seeing 77MB of RAM. Has anyone seen this problem before? I have tried several different installations, including multiple partitions/filesystems or only a single / partition/filesystem (plus a separate swap partition). Any suggestions which help me solve this problem would be most appreciated. My intent is to use this box as a firewall to my home network, which includes a Dell box running Red Hat 6.2. Thanks, Bruce ---------------------------------------------- Bruce Sielaff iMcKesson 952-814-7143 Bruce.Sielaff at iMcKesson.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org