[plug] Slackware 7

[russ]

Thanks Peter. I was just hoping it might be a known problem with the scsi card. 

Peter Wright wrote:
> To the original poster (Russ, I believe) - while I'm not really into
> religious distro wars, Christian's recommendation actually does have
> some validity. It's worth your brother trying to install another
> distro, even just to see if the problem can be reproduced on those.
> 
> I had a strange problem on a HP Vectra PC with a SCSI disk -
> attempting to install OpenBSD and FreeBSD failed, with both having
> difficulty recognising the disk and even when installed, failing to
> boot from the disk. NetBSD, by contrast, worked (and booted) fine the
> first time.
> 
> Similarly, I've heard reports from a novice-Linux-user friend who
> managed to install Corel Linux on his machine, didn't really like
> certain aspects of it (can't remember precisely why) and tried
> Mandrake Linux on my recommendation (for an easy-to-install-and-use
> Linux distro). Mandrake simply locked up during the install process,
> every time - no error message, no clue as to why.
> 
> Sometimes a certain combination of hardware will (for some bizarre
> reason) give one distribution fits, while another will chug on quite
> happily.
> 
> At the very least, if your brother tries (for example) Redhat or
> Debian and can reproduce the aforementioned problem, there'll be a few
> more people on this list that might be able to help him out by
> offering concrete suggestions - I think the Slackware-using population
> of the list is pretty low at the moment :).