[KLUG Members] Install issues.

[Jeremy Leonard]

I had a similar problem. I ended up using an IDE cdrom for the install. 
Everything worked fine after that.

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 03:28 pm, 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.