Don't forget that Linux is much more sensitive to bad hardware. That is
implicite here, but I thought I'd state it for the record. Linux doesn't
crash. The hardware, though, is another story...
Russell Hires
On Saturday 29 December 2001 11:11 pm, you wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2001 08:36, you wrote:
> > After months of telling my Son how wonderful Linux is. He finally
> > asked me to help him install it. We attempted to install it on his
> > machine, yesterday. And know he thinks his Dad is crazy :(
>
> (Clipped)
>
> > Can anyone shed some light on this problem? Where/what can we
> > check, so some day he may join the racks of the free?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike M.
>
> Mike ... it sounds like time for a seance!
>
> 1) check the hardware how-to for his hard drive on the off chance he
> has a "known flaky"
> 2) suspect his ram and give it a thorough check out. There is a
> product on freshmeat.net that will do this. Please forgive me for
> teasing ... but I have forgotten its name.
> 3) what choices are you making in re the install ?
> 4) are his fans functioning?
> 5) what happens when you use a different browser? Older versions of
> NS were somewhat notorious for locking X up. Although the whole
> machine was NOT, in fact, down (did you try ctrl+alt+Fn? to get to a
> different terminal and just kill / restart X?) anything further on
> the original terminal was out of the question.
> 6) check that stuff out and also post "the vitals" next time.
>
> Bill
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