On 5/9/05, ABrady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 09 May 2005 12:44:25 -0700 > Alexander Toresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My brother has an old computer, a Compaq Presario, which he is running > > windows 98 on. He's not running any game on it, and win98 is really > > unstable on it, so I've manage to persuade him to make me install > > debian on it. However, just to check, I ran memtest86 on it, to check > > the ram. Result: lots of errors between 14 and 17 mb. > > Could linux be setup to not use this area of the ram? Getting new ram > > for this computer may not be easy, it's a compaq, so it may need > > special compaq ram... dunno if pc100/pc133 would do... > > > > Regards, Alexander Toresson > > Well, there's this: > > http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/ > > The downside is, it looks like you'd have to have a running system to > get it installed, and I don't know of any way to do that. > > The upside is, there is a potential alternative. You could create a live > CD with the patch installed. > > You'd basically (off the top of my head--I've never tried this) need to > install a sytem on a good machine, compile a kernel with the patch, > create your own CD from that and distribute it. Then anyone using the CD > would have access to the patch. > > The other downside is, if you've never created a live CD of your own, it > can be a lot of work, at least the first time. > > There might already be such a live CD released, but I'm not aware of > any. Here's a list of them, though, if you'd like to look through it to > see if you can locate anything: > > http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php >
I actually found a mandrake live cd that seemed to have badram. However, I want to use debian. The computer is currently quite stable, however, programs crash occasionally. So I'll try compiling the custom kernel as a package on another computer, then install a barebone debian on the computer with bad ram and installing the kernel package on it. Regards, Alexander Toresson
