[CLUE-Tech] Could it be the Hard Drive?

[Michael Riversong]

Just tried installing Red Hat 7.3 on a generic computer with a huge hard 
drive & lots of memory.  This started when i tried uninstalling AOL, and 
their uninstall program wiped out the Win 98 system registry.  I didn't 
care, because as you know i'm not that fond of Win 98 anyway.  I tried 
reinstalling Win 98, which didn't take, and then Win NT, which had 
strange problems and hung up on an update procedure.  Finally i decided 
we might as well make this a Red Hat machine.  In all three installation 
tries, i got past the formatting and initial package sorting sections, 
and then it did an unexpected exit and a killall.

I'm beginning to think that the hard drive is bad, but would like to 
survey comments from folks here, in case someone has seen this before 
and it was something else.  Thanks!


Michael Riversong
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