On Wed, 30 May 2001 bdunnette at visi.com wrote:

> Hey all...
> Been trying to install Debian on a system I pieced together from an old
> Zeos (remember them?) case, a 3 gig Quantum HD, and the aforementioned
> K6/VA-503+/64meg DIMM, which I bought recently from Gen'l Nano.  Problem is, I get part way through the installation (the exact
> point varies) and then the installer segfaults.  This doesn't seem to be
> distro-specific -- everything seems to segfault sooner or later.  Sometimes
> I don't even get into the installer due to a kernel paging error or some
> such thing.  Any idea why this is?  Did I just get a bad mobo, or am I
> missing something?

I think if you have bad memory, you could also see this trouble.  You
might try pulling DIMMs (if you have more than one) and see if you can get
it to work with less.  Just a shot in the dim.

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