If you want to ship me the machine, I GUARANTEE you I will get Linux running on it :)
Where's the fun in that (yeah, I have a twisted idea of fun...)? Thanks, though!
I've played with the PCI settings - and that WAS part of the problem, initially - playing with them is what got Debian to boot at all. Right now, I think it is marginal HW that's screwing me up. This box is built from parts of old dead PCs - it's my 'Frankenbox Monster' - heck the HDDs were scavenged from a dumpster here in my apt. complex! The memory was mostly bought (128m), but the last 64mb came from dead machines here in my apt. The video (the Trident Cyberblade / 32m) was also purchased, because I could pick it up for $30 at a PC trade show that a buddy took me to. The 3c509 card is many years old - it used to run in 'Max', my old server - but it gave me problems there intil I replaced it with a generic PCI card a year ago.
Replacing an IDE cable has bought me a little more reliability, it seems - now I can 'reliably' do a Debian net install of the base system, at least. Next on the 'hit parade' is trying new memory (borrowing some for the experiment).
Re: Not home @ the moment, but
