From: Peter Sawatzki 

Wow, I was already wondering what does this mean: the Compaq machine with
the installed RedHat Linux 8.0 exactly works one day, when I walk into the
bureau in the morning the screen is all blank and the keyboard LEDs are
blinking. This already happened several times. So I decided to download
SuSE 8.1 and Mandrake 9.1. While ManDrake was downloading I started to
install SuSE (it was the 17MB boot CD version that I planned to use for an
FTP download install). This version begins to boot, I choose standard or
manual install and immediatly get - Boooooom - "kernel panic",
keyboard LEDs are blinking.

It's interesting: this machine was working three years non-stop under NT
Server 4 as a firewall with Symantec Raptor 6.5.2 installed and later with
Win 2000 Server and before mentioned FW software. *Never* had any problems
with it!

After the ManDrake download I today installed it (three CDs). Installed
without a problem. I'll see what it does tomorrow morning.

(and btw before I did install Linux I had tried another W2K install for
another experiment without any problems)

Peter

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Peter{at}Sawatzki.de says...
> I was trying to get a feeling of Samba speed and downloaded and
> installed RedHat 8.0 (Psyche) on a Compaq Pentium III/512 MB. After
> 'successful' installation and rebooting I get a black blank screen and
> had no idea what to do except a reinstall. I did this two times and on
> the third install (I always choosed to erase the entire partitions on
> the system) I can finally log on and use the system. Although "trying"
> several things in the graphical environment (KDE) I was not able to
> connect to the machine through telnet, ftp or http or smb. I swear that
> I started the corresponding daemons, also enabling the autostart of the
> daemons. I tried to disable the firewall functionality through the
> (graphical) server administration and also through the command line
> "setup" tool. I also edited the samba.conf to enable sharing for a tmp
> dir, however all this was not successfull. For example every time I
> start the setup tool or the server admin tool to disable the firewall it
> defaults to "high" security and does not seem to accept my changes.
> Although the machine answers "ping"s, it denies telnet access, smb and
> ftp. Do I have to manually change something/some conf here ?
>
> It is probably my fault as I'm a Win2000 user most of the time, but I
> have to say that I've installed SuSE Linux several times before
> (versions prioer to 6.4) and I've never had these kind of problems with
> SuSE like I have now with RedHat Linux.
>
> Also the Compaq machine I installed RH 8.0 on was running NT4 Server and
> Windows 2000 Server fine before. It has an Intel 815 graphics card and
> three Intel Network cards (that are all properly detected).
>
> I'll probably try to use a version of SuSE Linux later or Mandrake.
>
> Any suggestions welcome
>
> Peter
>

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