I asked last week about getting Debian to run on my new box. Joe Hart pointed me in the direction of ETCH rather than the SID I was trying to use.
Everything worked fin until Saturday.... switched on and it failed with an Error 18 at the GRUB. It took me 8 attempts over the weekend to reinstall to system.... it kept failing at the 'Installing Software' stage and wouldn't proceed. I downloaded the latest installer yesterday- - burnt another dic and tried again.... it all seemed to go fine and the system was up and running again. I have just switched on the machine - it booted OK - got to Gnome desktop... and the whole thing froze (reminiscent of the bad old Windoze days) ... switched it off (couldn't shutdown ... wouldn't take any inputs) switched back on and I'm back with my Error 18 during GRUB again.... Any sage advice please. I will remind folks that I am not 'that' technical, so please be gentle with me with I ask stoooopid questions. It seems as if I have a hard disk problem.... but I even went and bought a new drive at the weekend so this has happened to two separate SATA drives. A kinda obvious question.... but is anyone else having problems with SATA and ETCH? I understand that Error 18 is a read attempt beyond 8GB on older machines..... but this is a brand new Motherboard, AND in any event I always have BOOT in a separate 50meg partition at the front of the disk. Advice / comments please, Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
