Re: [TCLUG:22854] Installation problem

[Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>]

> The problem I am having is that (1)at varying points during the install, the
> system will freeze, or (2)after a successful installation will freeze during
> the reboot, or (3) after a successful installation and reboot, the system
> will freeze after running for a short time.  It seems independent of whether
> I install X.  In the case of 2 or 3 above, if I hit the reset button on the
> box, linux starts to boot, does an fsck and basically tells me that my
> filesystem has been trashed.  Also, the installation process tells me that I
> have very little memory and if, after installation, it successfully reboots,
> the dmesg file reports only about 15MB of RAM.

Lets see the dmesg. You probably need a "mem=80M" on the kernel command
line for one thing, since Linux isn't very good at detecting on machines
with more than 64M for some reason. :P