[ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

[Farran]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:45 +0100, Lucy wrote:

> On 17/04/2008, Farran <fazzy.baboon at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >  On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> >  On 17/04/2008, Farran <fazzy.baboon at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > >   Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit too (don't know if that's posisble ).
> >
> > If the ram is damaged if can cause lots of random problems. I've found
> > that it's always worth running memtest on any new PC to check that the
> > ram is okay. Do you have a live CD handy? There's an option in the
> > menu to allow you to run memtest - I'd advise letting it run overnight
> > to see if it comes up with any errors.
> 
> >  I did actually run a memtest for almost a whole day, passing 8 times with no errors, but it wasn't on a live cd, it was from the grub boot menu - would that make any difference? I can't test the broken ram because the motherboard won't even boot - luckily Aria have already authorised the RMA-ing of the ram though.
> 
> That's the same memtest. I'd forgotten it was on the grub boot menu as
> well - I don't dual boot so don't get to see it very often!
> 
> If the ram currently in the PC passed when you ran memtest before then
> it should be fine.
> 
> Can you post some of the errors from the syslog somewhere for us to look at?
> 


yup... just about to boot my pc on the net, so I'll be back in about 20
minutes :P

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Farran Lee
I'm only 15 :-P
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