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Posted: April 22 2005,01:18 QUOTE

hard drive installs are making me insane?

i tried a 6gig notebook drive i have which i know works fine in windows. and i get segmentation fault !

i tried a dekstop 3 gig drive and i get a read error on boot?

its like i cannot win with DSL ?

the bootable cd works but i'd like to get this working with a hard drive?

Is it possible im doing something wrong?
ive followed instructions on this site for the install
cfdisk to partition the drive
then dsl-hdinstall
then install lilo and i reboot?

maybe im missing something?


tried just recently to install onto a new computer system which had fedora core 3 on it and it resulted in a vs kernel panic error after the install?
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Posted: April 22 2005,09:23 QUOTE

Could it be a bad CD burn? Did you check the md5 sum, and which speed did you burn it with? - I seem to remember that some people have reported that burning it at a low speed will help.
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Posted: April 22 2005,16:58 QUOTE

Get Ultimate Boot CD and use the Darik's Boot and Nuke, wipe the drive with all 0's, its always best to start completely fresh harddrive, no data, no partitions, no nothing..just 0's

Brian
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Posted: April 23 2005,02:35 QUOTE

wow cool CD i wish i knew about this awhile back.

anyway yes i will reburn the cd just in case and i will use ultimate cd for wiping out the drive.
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Posted: April 26 2005,03:21 QUOTE

drive had bad sectors on it.

also changed out to 256mb memory
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