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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:20:03PM +1200, Kevin Gordon wrote: |
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> Hi Daniel, |
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> I burnt the CD on the 20th February this year and used ext2 which works |
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> fine. I hoped to move my COM+ studies to CORBA programming but once one |
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> starts with linux it is difficult to get back to the original goal! Thank |
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> you for your past help. |
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> Kevin. |
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> > > #tar xjvf /mnt/distcd/packages/sys.tbz2 -C /mnt/gentoo the computer |
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> > > completely locks up (at various stages - one at which I think was almost |
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> > > finished). |
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If you are gettting random lockups, then you probably have a bad CPU or flaky |
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memory. You may want to try the memtest86 memory tester which was included |
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on our bootdisk as a GRUB boot option. |
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But *random* lockups definitely point towards a hardware problem. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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