[KLUG Members] Install issues.

[Adam Bultman]

Okay:

Here's my new box:

ASUS P2B-D w/dual 400's

Adaptec aic7xxx SCSI host controller

Plextor 12/20 SCSI CDROM

Compaq 10k RPM Ultra160 drive (Device 0)

Matrox Millennium Video Card

256 MB RAM

Connor 8 GB Tape drive (travan)

Optional: Ultra2 Barracuda


Here's my problem: I can't get any distro of linux to go on it.  I did at
one point, but I can't anymore.  I've only tried redhat and slackware (7.2
and 8.0, respectively) yet and I'm wondering why. Slackware complains
about Trying to kill the idle process, RH just pukes.  I'm tring to find
out what my problem is.  I suspect the SCSI drive, although I had the SCSI
working earlier on another controller (and I haven't yet tried the other
controller, the Adaptec is on-board).

Anyone had this before? I'm looking around for my debian (sigh) CD, and I
can't find it, so I can't try that. However, those two distros are pretty
much my favorites, so I'd like to go with one of them.  I'm going to try
different RAM in a jiffy here, but I'm wondering if someone has an idea
for me, or had this before.

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Adam Bultman
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