Hi all,
This morning I put togethor a computer made of spare parts for me to install Linux on - primarily as a learning machine. Spec is: AMD K6-233, QDI Titanium 1B+ mobo with 430TX chipset, Fujitsu 2.5GB hard drive, 64Mb SDRAM, 3Com 3C905C NIC
I installed SuSe 6 just fine - no problems at all. Everything appeared to work. I had it on my network, using the version of Apache that had been installed as standard with SuSe.
But then I wanted to install MySQL, so I downloaded the latest RPM from MySQL.com. Followed the instructions, which was basically to type this:
<< rpm -i --nodeps MySQL-3.23.28-1.i386.rpm >>
That command hangs the machine - nothing more can be done locally, through ftp or telnet. At the same time, the hard drive spins up loudly, then slows down again. I'm pretty sure the hard drive is working perfectly as it just came out of a Windows 2000 server.
There are some discussion lists/boards with people reporting similar problems here: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+problems+with+ata+drives&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=0&sa=N but none of them really give me a solution, just confirm that I'm not the only one with this problem. They indicate that the Fujitsu hard drive causing the problem.
Would upgrading to SuSe/RedHat 7 fix it?
Please Please help if you can
I'm getting desperate now.
Anything is much appreciated
Thanks in advance,
James.
This morning I put togethor a computer made of spare parts for me to install Linux on - primarily as a learning machine. Spec is: AMD K6-233, QDI Titanium 1B+ mobo with 430TX chipset, Fujitsu 2.5GB hard drive, 64Mb SDRAM, 3Com 3C905C NIC
I installed SuSe 6 just fine - no problems at all. Everything appeared to work. I had it on my network, using the version of Apache that had been installed as standard with SuSe.
But then I wanted to install MySQL, so I downloaded the latest RPM from MySQL.com. Followed the instructions, which was basically to type this:
<< rpm -i --nodeps MySQL-3.23.28-1.i386.rpm >>
That command hangs the machine - nothing more can be done locally, through ftp or telnet. At the same time, the hard drive spins up loudly, then slows down again. I'm pretty sure the hard drive is working perfectly as it just came out of a Windows 2000 server.
There are some discussion lists/boards with people reporting similar problems here: http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+problems+with+ata+drives&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&start=0&sa=N but none of them really give me a solution, just confirm that I'm not the only one with this problem. They indicate that the Fujitsu hard drive causing the problem.
Would upgrading to SuSe/RedHat 7 fix it?
Please Please help if you can
I'm getting desperate now. Anything is much appreciated
Thanks in advance,
James.
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