On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 06:10:38PM -0600, David Blevins wrote: > > It's a: > Dell Dimension XPS T700r > Pentium III 700 > 512 MB Ram > IDE 0 disk 0 - Western Digital 20 gig, 7200 rpms > IDE 0 disk 1 - nothing > IDE 1 disk 0 - CD/DVD-ROM, by Hitatchi (sp?) > IDE 1 disk 1 - CD-RW, by Sony > PCI - 3com 3C905C-TXM NIC (for LAN) > PCI - 3com 3C905C-TX-M NIC (for WAN)-- not used at the moment > PCI - Creative Labs 'something' Live! > AGP - Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet 32 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 256 compliant) > > > Running a test on my RAM using the memtest program you recommended, its > about 50% done after 30 minutes. > > I can't imagine I have bad sectors on my hard drive as I can install 6.1 > fine. It doesn't recognize half my system, but the files install ok and the > machine starts (no X or anything fancy though). > > I lost the site (looking for it now), but I found something from the Red Hat > 'install' maining list archive that mentioned needing to pass ide parameters > to the kernel. The failure always happens right when the installer needs to > write to the disk. Any ideas on that? > > I don't need any of the files on the disk, so any avenues involving > completely wiping the disk are A-OK with me. > > Thanks for the direction. A solution that should work: unplug all the non-essential stuff - like the CD-RW, the sound card and the second ethernet and see what happens. Also, do an automatic install first: if it's going to fail, there is no point in answering all the questions of a custom install :) florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011108/de8f94da/attachment.pgp