On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:37:10AM -0500, bdunnette at visi.com wrote: > Hey all... > Been trying to install Debian on a system I pieced together from an old > Zeos (remember them?) case, a 3 gig Quantum HD, and the aforementioned > K6/VA-503+/64meg DIMM, which I bought recently from Gen'l Nano. Problem is, I get part way through the installation (the exact > point varies) and then the installer segfaults. This doesn't seem to be > distro-specific -- everything seems to segfault sooner or later. Sometimes > I don't even get into the installer due to a kernel paging error or some > such thing. Any idea why this is? Did I just get a bad mobo, or am I > missing something? Looks like a hardware problem. Probably memory or motherboard. Run memtest86 from sgi for a night to see if that catches any memory problem. I have used a K6-2/395 on a VA-503+ for a year and a half and then after a shutdown the system would'n come up. I didn't have any instability problems. When it worked it worked, when it died it died. 8-) florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4