It's a: Dell Dimension XPS T700r Pentium III 700 512 MB Ram IDE 0 disk 0 - Western Digital 20 gig, 7200 rpms IDE 0 disk 1 - nothing IDE 1 disk 0 - CD/DVD-ROM, by Hitatchi (sp?) IDE 1 disk 1 - CD-RW, by Sony PCI - 3com 3C905C-TXM NIC (for LAN) PCI - 3com 3C905C-TX-M NIC (for WAN)-- not used at the moment PCI - Creative Labs 'something' Live! AGP - Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet 32 MB (NVIDIA GeForce 256 compliant) Running a test on my RAM using the memtest program you recommended, its about 50% done after 30 minutes. I can't imagine I have bad sectors on my hard drive as I can install 6.1 fine. It doesn't recognize half my system, but the files install ok and the machine starts (no X or anything fancy though). I lost the site (looking for it now), but I found something from the Red Hat 'install' maining list archive that mentioned needing to pass ide parameters to the kernel. The failure always happens right when the installer needs to write to the disk. Any ideas on that? I don't need any of the files on the disk, so any avenues involving completely wiping the disk are A-OK with me. Thanks for the direction. David > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Florin Iucha > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:16 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Shoot me, please!!! > > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:46:55PM -0600, David Blevins wrote: > > Argh! > > > > I just ran out and bought 7.2 so I'd have the 'official' cd > distribution. > > I get all the way to the last screen of the install process and > get a kernel > > panic. Says "Attempted to kill init!", whatever that means. > > > > I am attempting to install over 6.1, I can't upgrade because my > partitions > > were blown away. > > > > What machine is that? CPU, Memory, HDD? > > Have you ran memtest86 on it recently? www.memtest86.com for details. > Have you ran badblocks on the hdd? > > florin > > -- > > "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." > > 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 >