[TriLUG] Fw: WinXP vs RH 7.2

Mike McLean mamclean at eos.ncsu.edu
Thu Nov 1 14:21:47 EST 2001


Brian Daniels wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 01:47:12PM -0500, Donald Ball wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Brent Fox wrote:
> 
> > maybe you should integrate a memory tester into the installer. or make it
> > an option that the user can choose if they had trouble the first go
> > 'round.
> 
> An accurate memory tester (one that can catch subtle intermittent errors)
> takes hours to run.  Users would likely become frustrated if RedHat
> installs had to be left running overnight.

memtest86 is GPL; perhaps it could be incorporated as one of the
syslinux options on the cd.



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