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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.

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