On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:33:09 -0800, Ty Spilker wrote: > Mandrake always crashed when I would try run a gzip command > > I went to update Fedora after I had finish installing, ... the install > stopped. It wouldn't even start Seen it a hundred times before... One or more of your memory modules is stuffed. Edit your /etc/grub.conf and append "mem=128M" to the line that looks like: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-<etc, etc> ro root=/dev/<something> mem=128M And reboot and try again. Try different memory sizes between <your max> and <the size of one of your modules> in multiples of that single size. If after all that, it still doesn't work, swap the modules in banks 1 an <the last bank> (3,4?). Then try the above again. Eventually you'll work out which is/are the faulty module(s) - (maybe all of them). Even now, some people find it hard to believe their hardware is at fault in situations like this, because "it works on Windows". It's a known fact that Linux will reveal weaknesses in your hardware that Windows won't. Trust me, it's the memory modules ... I'd bet money on it. - K.
