[sclug] woody netinst (bf kernel)

[Will Dickson]

Chris Aitken wrote:

>>I smell hardware. Specifically, I smell iffy memory. Have
>>you done any kind of soak test on it? I'd be astonished if
>>the Debian install system doesn't include strong
>>checksumming (MD5 or SHA-1, at a guess), which would prevent
>>corrupt code getting on the box in the first place. It'd
>>either install a fair copy or it wouldn't install at all.
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>No soak test done. Wouldn't know where to start either!
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http://www.memtest86.com/ might be a good place.

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>>If the old mobo isn't fried you might be better
>>off failing  back to it.
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>Nope. Its an old AT (not even ATX!), I think it is socket 7, and so Pentium
>II/AMD K7/Cyrix tend to all drop in and run perfectly (after changiong
>jumpers of course), so its the same mobo. And as mentioned above - it was
>running ok, pre-reinstall :(
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I thought Pent II's all used a slot, not a socket?

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>Certainly a sensible solution. A while ago (old flat, cold time of year) the
>original CPU fan packed up, and I was getting the same kind of faults.
>Certainly now that the temperature in my 1st floor flat is probably 20
>degrees C above what it was in my old place.
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>Unfortunately being an old AT board, the memory tends to live betweent the
>CD drives and the PSU! CPU is at the front of the case (only CPU fan, no
>case fans!).
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In that case, the first thing I'd do would be to fit a case fan, on
general principles if nothing else. (Assuming the case has somewhere
suitable to mount it.)

Will.