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[Leon Brooks]

Anvil Iron wrote:

> Does any one know how to fix this or where I would search to find more info.

Try using the diskdrake package under Mandrake's installer and see how 
it reacts to the drive. You can always install RH over the top if it 
works (formal all partitions if you do). There is no practical 
difference between RH and Mdk as far as iiNet is concerned, except that 
Mdk has better out-of-the-box ISDN support.

You are also likely to get an error like this if the disk's real 
geometry is different to the partition table's ideas about it. Try using 
different BIOS modes (LBA is best) and see if that has any impact.

> I have a pentium 100  6.4gighard drive with 28mb of RAM. this will be
> upgraded in the near future.

> Finally am I expecting too much to run linux on the above spec machine?

No. My gateway is a 486SLC40 with 12M of RAM and a 250MB HDD. It was a 
bit of a pain to install, though. (-:
I have a gateway/nameserver/webserver/proxy machine running for a 
surprisingly well-endowed CBD corporation which is a P133 with 64M and 
was until recently (sans proxy) only 2GB HDD (now 10GB) ISDN through 
Chariot. Another (northern suburbs, iiNet, ADSL) the same spec except 
P200. And another which is a K6-II-700+256M+90GB (Fremantle, the late 
q-net, 128K wireless, also does an SQL DB). Still another 
K6-II-300+64M+10G which doubles as a workstation (Balcatta, Indigo 
networks, modem, also does Windows shares). And others...

-- 
"At Fluke we spend about 5 times as much per Microsoft seat as for Unix
seat in support costs. [...] I see notices at least once a week warning
of [NT] down time. Our Unix systems & our bootleg Linux systems rarely
go down - running for months without a single glitch." -- Steven Swift