I should shutup

Keith Antoine kantoine
Mon May 17 11:31:49 PDT 2004


On Sunday 26 May 2002 12:08, Leon A. Goldstein wrote:
> Keith "Skippy" Antoine aka "Gandalf" wrote inter alia:
> > I sent today a ,mail stating that I was in Calder 2.4, when actaully I
> > was not, but just going to install it at last. Now I have egg on my face
> > because i was totally unable to Install:
> > Caldera eDesktop2.4, Caldera LTP and also Caldera desktop 3.0
> > It appears that 2.4 is totally unable to install from either of my
> > cddrives; LTP has great problems with my video card, and lastly 3.0 takes
> > ages to boot up to a diagrammed background screen without any text and it
> > freezes.
>
> I've experienced a similar problem installing a different distro
> (BearOps) on my "son of lab rat" system.
> The culprit turned out to be the hard drive (Quantum 8.4 GB "bigfoot")
> and not the CD drives. I swapped out the Quantum "flatfoot" for an
> elderly WD 6.4 and that solved the problem for me. BTW all of my drives
> are IDE.
>
> If you've got another old HD sitting around, give it a try.

No I don't have any 'old' hd's so thats out <g> Mind if it will not install on 
any new stuff its no good to me anyway.

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage






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