Linux does not like my computer

[Rob Bowers]

I am having grand troubles switching to Linux. I tried Fedora Core 4 and 1,
SuSE, and Ubuntu, none of which installed, despite several attempts in each
case.



I eventually got Redhat 7.3 on, but after trying to add more packages, I
cannot login, for the screen flashes wildly, preventing any action apart
from ctrl-alt-del (which is what I have ended up doing).



I currently know very little other than Windows, including what lies
beneath. (This is changing).



Ubuntu says:

"Base system installation error

The debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)"



FC says:

"There was an error installing cracklib-dicts-2.8.2-1"

or

"There was an error installing glibc-common-2.3.5-10"



Recently I've been seeing

"error: rpmdb: damaged header #164 retrieved -- skipping"

"error: rpmdb: damaged header #202 retrieved -- skipping"

followed by

"free(): invalid pointer 0x1caa44!"



And I have seen several other error messages that are now scribbles on a wad
of paper in my pocket, none of which make any sense to me now.



It is a Celeron CPU, 128M, 7G. I realise that this is a modest machine, but
it should work, right? I am not attempting to keep a second OS.



I have seached for such errors for answers on internet to no avail. I hope
someone can help. (Being without an operating system has kept me from my
work for far too long now).



Thanks,

Rob
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