On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 14:50, Arun Khan wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008, jtd wrote:
I have yet to come across a machine on which you cant install a linux distro.
Way back, a colleague had picked up a Compaq rack mount server (dot com bust auction) with a WinNT server installation. We were unable to install; we tried RH, Mandrake, Caldera. The install would hang.
For such machines, use a boot server and image file. Or dd a minimal install to the disk. connect the disk to another machine to do this.
In the distant past, in many cases where installations were bombing, running memory check showed up bad ram. If an install bombs i simply change the ram nowadays and send the ram back to the vendor. such rams are most likely to crash the system under load.