So, Johnathan,
You want the rest of the story...
This setup is on hold until I get a new and improved white box....
This was for a box on my small lan connected to DSL... I want
a box to have as a dev box... In the mean time, We are moving
Openacs from a 6.2 box to a 7.0 box at a data center... Read more
HERE
I took an 2yr old AMD 300Mhz box and tried and tried and tried to install linux 7.1 from cheapbytes.com CD. Many times the install would crash hard... keyboard lockup....and in NO consistent location. So I replaced the CD drive, Did a memory check with an old dos program, checked the hard drive with Steve Gibson's spinrite grc.com
program. Everything checks out ok so I'm left with the mother board
problem ??? I guess when I have time, I'll put windoz back on this
machine... Oh, I did notice an occasional shakyness on the monitor
and eliminated the monitor as the source because the onscreen
display did NOT shake when the image behind did... THe video
card is PART of the motherboard...
BTW... I had to get the freedos version of fdisk to be able
to fully removed partitions from the drive and reformat as small dos16 so I could run spinrite... There are probably better tools for linux ....
I finally did get Linux 7.1 installed but it is still not stable
and my one try with the RPMs failed... but it's the box not me or you!. LATER........
-Bob
Link Ref: https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0002RI
