Hello! The Parity Check message could be the result of bad memory, but I don't think so, instead I think that this computer is infected by the parity boot b virus, which does nothing bad except of halting the system sometimes and displaying this message... you can clean your computer with f-prot, a quite goot antivirus program; it's free for non-commercial use and if you use it commercially I think it's 30day trialware. But be sure to have a virus-clean dos boot disk with sys.com and fdisk.??? on it because the removal of the virus may corrupt the boot sector so that your machine won't boot up any more until you fdisk /mbr and sys the harddisk. And... maybe you cannot find/remove the virus when it's in memory, so you'll perhaps need a boot disk with f-prot on it... producing this disk is quite complicated as it f-prot needs much more then the space on one disk... So you should take the old version which needs less space... if you need it, I could send you a disk image of a boot disk. But you'll have to switch the date of your PC to 1/1/1998 because if you don't do so this old version will only tell you it's outdated and it will exit :).
Link to F-PROT: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/virus/fp-308b.zip old version: ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/Pcibm/antivirus/fprot/fp-228.zip or search at http://ftpsearch.lycos.com I can send you an additional 4megs of 1MB SIM 30pin ram modules if you want because I've got many of them just lying around. And also, if you want, a Debian 2.1 two-CD distribution, also lying around... I think it'll install because it's got an older 2.0 kernel. Hmm, and this problem with the NIC... are you sure you have switched off pnp mode of this card, because the 386 bios won't handle pnp cards? Regards, Stephan Hachinger from Munich, Germany ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joey Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DSC Lithuania" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:16 AM Subject: Re: 386-4 MB startup question > DSC Lithuania wrote: > > Does anyone have a suggestion on what I can do to get this system up and running? I am hoping to get this successfully installed on the computer that hasn't run before, because that becomes an increase in our assets without additional risk. > > Have you thought about removing the hard disk and putting it in a > computer with more memory, and doing the install there? Debian should > run in 4mb, if you can get it installed. > > -- > see shy jo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
