disk write error:

[bryce4president]

Hi,
I've followed throught the first part of the tutorial, only to make sure I don't miss anything when doing this....

After I install the base system and reboot the machine I get a disk write error.
I then have to boot in recovery mode. This happened to me on a 40GB drive I had and I tried to reinstall several times. So I thought the drive was bad and put in one of my 80GB drives and that too has given me the same error. I'm running a memtest on the drive right now to make sure it is not the disk.

I'm installing DapperDrake if that is important. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Bryce

[bryce4president]

UH OH!
When running the memory test the machine shut down about 75% of the way through it. Any ideas?????

I hope the board is still good.....

Bryce

[martinfst]

Based on what you told us here, this looks like serious hardware problems to me.

[bryce4president]

that is what i'm afraid of....i'll have to try to do some trouble shooting and see if i can pinpoint it.....as long as it isn't the board I think i'll be ok....but if that is it....oh boy....

I removed the 80gb i was just using and put in a different 80gb and now it won't even get past the detecting the hardware part of the install process.....thanks for the help...any other suggestions are still welcome

thanks...
bryce