On 23-May-98 Chris Fishwick wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have 486DX4-100 with 16 Meg RAM and a 850Meg Quantum Trailblazer
> HDD Drive... I am trying to install RH on it, with no luck..
>
> RH 4.2, starts to boot from the boot floppy, then, just after finding the
> HDD, gives a 'Unknown Interupt' error, and stops.
>
> RH5.0, gets a bit further, asks if I have a Color Monitor, then freezes..
>
> It doesn't appear to be the hardware, as dos/win will install without a
> problem... Is there something that I am missing?? Can anyone *please*
> shed some light on this???
Simply because windows works ok doesn't mean the hardware is functional,
unfortunately.
You might try resetting the BIOS defaults, and perhaps removing some of the
memory in hopes that if there is defective RAM, you'll have chosen it amongst
the one's you've removed.
You might also try recreating your boot disks, as perhaps there's a chance they
are defective despite their still booting..
There is also a program called memtest that you might try to find possible
memory or hardware problems. Once we've established that it really isn't
hardware, we can then move on to the installation itself.
Especially when both 4.2 and 5.0 fail to install..
Dave
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