Hello again, 1) Thank you to all who replied both on the list and off list :) See number 4) at the bottom for specific replies.
2) I am glad that nobody took my post as a troll :) It was not intended that way. I truly appreciate the people who spend time answering question to so many users on this list. 3) I value your time. I really do :) As a proof, I can tell you the following story (which you don't need to read if you are short of time ;) ). Recently I installed Debian on my secondary, older computer. It didn't go without a hitch. Actually, whatever I tried, I ran into troubles. I tried installing in different modes, and the system would hang up at different stages... but I could never complete the install. I didn't want to waste people's time, so each time I was tempted to post to this list asking for help, I remembered another think that I could check on my own, or something else that I could search on the internet, to see if someone had the same symptoms. At one stage, I even spent some time searching the internet to figure out how to calculate the md5 hash key of the *burned* CD, to make sure it was identical to the original iso (It was). After really many hours, I was getting crazy and I wanted to give up trying on my own, without your help. But, as previously, I thought about one more thing I could check on my own before bothering you. As luck would have it, I remembered that years before, I had burned a memtest boot CD. I booted the computer with it, and quickly found that one of my two memory sticks was terribly faulty (the computer had been serviced 2 weeks earlier, and the memory stick had probably either been damaged or improperly re-inserted into its slot). I removed the offending stick, and tried again... this time the installation went without a hitch :) I spent the whole day, reusing and recycling every bit of knowledge I could gather from the documents and from the internet, trying alone for a whole day to solve my problem rather than spending any more of your time that is precious to me. So, if today I come to you with this new hardware problem, it's because I have RTFM'ed and searched for a long time without finding a solution. This problem (I think it's been the same cause all along) has been recurring on this computers for years, and by now, I really need help to get to the end of it. If something is broken, I need to know what so that I can replace it. If I have a special chipset, I need to figure out which one. etc. 4) Thanks for your replies. I will study all the avenues you offer, do more homework on my own, and come back to you with more precise questions. Ron: I am not sure there is a single LUG in the whole country where I live. I have been subscribed for years to all the country/language specific mailing lists I found but there is no traffic on them. But I'll check some more. :) Douglas: I had a look at the installation manual, but I'll make sure to read all of it. I'll check debian-boot and do a report. Text mode and CLI is fine with me :) I'll try again to see if I can glean some more info. Raj: I had checked the debug message in the F4 window, and searched the web with the information printed there. Others had experienced the same problems, but I have not found a solution that was valid in my case. I'll study the man pages and other docs to see what 'ps' does, what information I can glean from it and I'll come back to this list when I have this information. Thanks. With your help, I have more things to check and I'll do my bit and study what I need to in the next few days. Blessings, -- Augustin http://minguo.info/ better election methods http://minguo.info/usa/ the USA FA/DP Free Association with Delegable Proxy: an internet experiment in democracy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
