[GLLUG] redhat 7.3 install problem on Compaq computer

[Yao-Ying Chien]

Hi,

Thanks for all replies. You guys are great!!!

Last night Mandrake 9.0 was successfully installed to my Presario (P-III 450MHz). So I know that hardware was not the cause (well I take that back, see next paragraph). It was 3a, so I went right to sleep. Debian 2.2 appears to work too, but it was a more complicate install process. So I sort of use as much defaults as possible such that I did not have to type or read the instructions.

So far I know Redhat 7.3 and 8.0 do not work on my Presario. But I vaguely remember that I used to install a Redhat (could be one of the 6.0-7.2) on this machine before. At that time, different keyboard (was Din 8; now PS2), mouse (was serial 3 buttons; now PS2 IntelliMouse, wheel), memories (was 256 MB PC-66; now 2x256MB PC-133), and harddrive (was one 3.2G; now three: 19G WD <win98>, 12G Maxtor <Linux here>, 14G IBM <win2000 Pro SP3>) were used. Which one would be your prime suspect?

Yao

>
>Hi Paul,
>
>Thanks for your reply, AND the links.
>
>The Presario was quite old: P-III 450MHz, a desktop made in 1998 (?).
>450Mhz sounds a P-II to me, but the case says P-III). Shouldn't RH 7.3
>take care of such an old computer?
>
>I got mixed reports about RD 8.0. One is that, from the google search,
>similar install problems were reported on RH 7.1-8.0, SuSe, Mandrake 8.
>The others complained that that RH x.0 is unstable, and is worse than RH
>7.3. ==>  That's why I was hesitate about RH 8.0.
>
>OTOH, many people thought RH 8.0 was great. ==> What are you guys'
>experiences?
>
>Anyway RH 8.0 will be my next try. Beside, I have been curious about RH
>8.0.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Yao
>
>
>>http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6291
>>
>>I don't know if you've got one of the newer Presario laptops, but you
>>may find this article useful.
>>
>>If you can get lm_sensors (http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/) working,
>>you can find the CPU temp that way.  But since you're having trouble
>>getting through the install, that may not be feasible.  There's also
>>gp_Temp for Win32, which you can get here:
>>http://www.benchtest.com/downloads/index.html
>>
>>Though, if I had to guess, CPU temp isn't the issue.  It's been my
>>experience that Windows is much more sensitive to CPU overheating than
>>Linux is.  Good luck!
>>
> >PaulM
>>
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