-----Original Message----- From: Pedro Guerreiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Assad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Debian Users Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Cheapbytes CDs
>On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:41:07PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: >> >> "Assad Khan" wrote: >> >> > I got Debian 2.1 slink from Cheapbytes a few weeks back. base2_1.tgz is >> > corrupted, even though I got a 4 CD set. So now I dont have Linux >> > installed on my second hard drive at all! :-(( >> >> A friend had a problem installing base2_1.tgz from my Cheapbytes >> 4 CD set (I only upgraded). However, I note that it appears to >> match a version on the Debian site: > >Well, that's two of us :). A friend of mine also had problems installing slink >from the Cheapbytes CDs (exactly the same problem: base2_1.tgz was corrupted) >UNTIL we find out that the problems was not the CDs, but the memory: he had two >64Mb DIMMs. When he removed one of them, he could start installing slink, but >then it just froze after he reboot the system with a kernel panic error. >Everything was smoothly when he changed to four 32Mb DIMMs. > >As you can see, sometimes the problem isn't the media, but something else. > >just my 2 cents. >-- >Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >-------------------------------------------------------- >Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way. > Hmmm......I have had problems with my memory. My brother (who owns the buisness where I get my computers) gave me the wrong chip. I had a brand new system, but the 128mb memory was from March 1998, even though my motherboard and everything is from 1999. Looks like I should keep my new redhat cds in the box after all :-) Thanks, Assad Khan
