[TriLUG] Fw: WinXP vs RH 7.2

[Brent Fox]

On Thursday 01 November 2001 02:21 pm, Mike McLean wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that's a great idea.  Like you said, it should be an option to run it if 
you want to, but not force the user to do it if they don't want to waste time.

Brent