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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on cd
Date: Thu Jun  7 09:23:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010607092211.B28374@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006f01c0ef2b$c1a71a40$0501010a@kgpro>; from kgordon@paradise.net.nz on Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:20:03PM +1200

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:20:03PM +1200, Kevin Gordon wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> I burnt the CD on the 20th February this year and used ext2 which works
> fine. I hoped to move my COM+ studies to CORBA programming but once one
> starts with linux it is difficult to get back to the original goal! Thank
> you for your past help.
> Kevin.

> > > #tar xjvf /mnt/distcd/packages/sys.tbz2 -C /mnt/gentoo the computer
> > > completely locks up (at various stages - one at which I think was almost
> > > finished).

If you are gettting random lockups, then you probably have a bad CPU or flaky
memory.  You may want to try the memtest86 memory tester which was included
on our bootdisk as a GRUB boot option.

But *random* lockups definitely point towards a hardware problem.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



      reply	other threads:[~2001-06-07 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-06  1:48 [gentoo-dev] gentoo-1.0 rc4 pre2 on cd Kevin Gordon
2001-06-06 10:30 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-06-07  2:27   ` Kevin Gordon
2001-06-07  9:23     ` Daniel Robbins [this message]

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