[wplug] Re: Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?

[Reany, Burt]

Group;

    I followed this thread, and came to a question  Not being current on
hardware diagnostics software, i'd appreciate hearing which packages the
members of the group use - especially where burning-in or exercising a
system to find "intermittent" problems.

 Thanx;
 Burt R


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	J Aaron Farr [SMTP:jaaron_farr at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:45 PM
> To:	wplug at wplug.org
> Subject:	[wplug] Re: Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?
> 
> Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
> 
> The installation is taking place on a single drive that is partitioned for
> 
> both Windows and Linux.
> 
> I think it's become obvious that it's a hardware problem.  Usually the 
> installation fails when the installer tries to actually write to the disk.
> 
> That made me think it was the hard drive, but the error message makes me 
> think it's the RAM.  I don't know both my be bad.  I'm going to try to run
> 
> some diagnostics on it.  I can at least get a DOS prompt to access my 
> windows files and I can transfer the critical ones to floppy that way.
> 
> If anyone else has any suggestions to pinpoint what the probable cause is,
> 
> let me know.  Thanks again.
> 
> jaaron
> 
> 
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