[ale] building a new box

[Pete Hardie]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Pete,
> First recheck your BIOS screens to make sure that both the hard drive 
> and the CD player are properly identified.  Both should be listed by
> name.  Most modern Mobos come with two IDE plugs. You may need to plug
> the HD into the first one (read the documentation) and the CD into the
> second. Both should be plugged into the END connector on the cables -- 
> and check that the hard drive is using an 80-wire cable and not the
> older 40-wire.  The two cables look almost exactly the same but the
> newer ATA drives need the 80-wire cable. Also check that neither is
> jumpered as a slave.

A followup -

I managed to get the think working - it was a combination of
a) bad boot floppy.  I was reusing an old AOL floppy
b) bad CD drive in the box - good thing I didn't pay for that one...
c) perhaps cabling+jumpers mismatch
d) reversed floppy cable

So I spent the evening selecting the packages to load, and it loaded, but bombed 
out on the reboot, complaining about something being too big to fit into memory 
- I assume it was the kernel, but will rebuild tonight with a workstation 
'stock' install to see if something works.  I can always re-install after that 
with more packages.

Thanks for the help, everyone!


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