[KLUG Members] Install issues.

[Wesley Leonard]

I've installed many times on that very same SCSI card and it seems to work OK.

Have you tried using text mode on the redhat install?

Does it puke at any particular place?  

l8er

Adam Bultman wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Adam Bultman
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