The message 20051109153344.GI11826@thebowery.co.uk from Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk contains these words:
I'd dispute your first statement, vigorously - I've had problems not installing S.u.S.E., installing Mandrake, which went on, but consistently froze when the logo appeared, Mini Linux which did sweet FA, and now Debian Woody. I can't get Python's fdisk to play nicely either.
From the sounds of it you aren't having much luck installing Windows
either ;) tbh if you are having that many problems with so many distributions I'd suspect something is seriously wrong with your hardware or similar.
Two - well, three different machines.
The first was a PIII-450 which *DID* have problems, and there was no way Win 2000 would go on - it started from the (SCSI) CD-ROM, but when it needed to refer to CD again, it refused to find it.
The same CD installed like a dream on a 233MMX.
The box I've been trying to put Woody on (AMD-900) seems OK, and when I changed to it, Win 2000 went on like clockwork. However, now you come to mention it, the board in the box I'm trying to put Win 98 on has the same PIII-450 and board as the box which wouldn't install Win 2000, so it may well be faulty in some way.
However, it did have Woody on it before I rebuilt the box with the AMD-900 and its board.
I think I might reinstate the default settings in the BIOS, and if that doesn't work, reinstall them. Thanks for reminding me.