Re: OT: my new PC rocks!!

From: Ben Yates (anoneds_at_netscape.net)
Date: 12/22/03 

Date: 22 Dec 2003 07:12:11 -0800

"Beth" <BethStone21@hotmail.NOSPICEDHAM.com> wrote in message news:<B4oFb.198$h34.153@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net>...
> Randy wrote:
> > Then, of course, there's the issue of getting decent drivers for all
> your
> > new hardware if you're running something besides Windows.
> >
> > I, too, recently got a new machine. Intel 875 motherboard, Radion
> 9600
> > video card, gigabit ethernet, etc.
> >
> > Windows is the only OS I can currently install on the machine as the
> > hardware is too new for most of the other OSes I've got (no, I'm not
> > interested in installing drivers by patches, recompiling the kernel,
> etc.).
> >
> > Fortunately, I still have my PII 300MHz for all the other OSes...
>
> Mind you, I _still_ can't get Linux installed on my "Linux box" second
> machine...it's only a 450MHz...I checked the jumper settings and they
> are okay...but it still crashes in a recursive kernel panic when I
> select the "test the CD" integrity test thingy...and if I try skipping
> that, then the machine hangs and reboots itself when trying to format
> the partitions ready for install...that's Red Hat, by the
> way...downloaded off their site...I have two hard drives, two CD-ROMs
> (all old "spare parts"...I "cannabalise" old machines to put together
> my second machine :)...
>
> Anyone got any ideas what could be wrong here? Because this is now
> getting really fudging annoying, as I had plans to do some Linux
> work...I should have just left the old version on there because that
> worked and I was coming along great with the X-Windows stuff I was
> doing...but then thought: "oh, I'll see if there's a newer
> version"...and then, once the old version was formatted off (I wanted
> to re-partition to get a Win9x on there too, for "testing purposes"
> with Windows programs to see that it worked on 9x and NT kernels :),
> then I can't get any Linux version (not even the old one I still kept
> on CDs) to get back on there...
>

Well, if you ask a Linux expert (or in a Linux group), they are likely
to tell you that you are a Windoze user who doesn't understand Linux,
and they have never had any issues, and there machine uptime measures
in years, not months, and etc...... ad nauseam.
That is the reaction I got when I asked about the same issue with Red
Hat.
I'm not saying they are wrong, but I've gotten use to operating
systems that don't crash during installation... Like Windoze, OpenVms,
etc...

Ben

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