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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