[Solved] - Older church machine can't load - Gateway GP6-400, 128 mem, 10 gig hd

[OldGuy]

Katie, What a good idea lending the machines.  I have bought 5 on eBay for very little $25 to $30 bucks each, the shipping was usually the same as the pruchase price.

I think it would be wonderful for folks who enjoy computers and churches to organize a computer fixit club, to take in old donated machines, try to get them running under Phoenix, or PCLinuxOS, and give or for a low donation (for parts, memory, etc) people in their congregation (or elsewhere) who cannot afford a machine.  I gave one I had away, much more powerful than mine to my church,  I run a littel P3 with 384 mem and a 40 gig drive.  That unit at home, runs wonderfully and fits my needs as an older person.  The other one, the one I gave, when to my church for their office, I took the office machine home to switch to linux for folks to do resume and searches on.

It's nice to be close to retirement, I have little cash for traveling, but time (when not job searching) to help friends and new friends in my community.

[OldGuy]

Listening to everyone suggestions the secret to this one way the added boot option line:

                      ide=nodma, noscsi

and increasing the ram, my neighbor gave me 128 stick + 64 stick , so with the original stick I'm at 320 meg, and from your helpful hints, I'm functioning as a Phoenix system who just arose from the ashes.

Thank you everyone, and my neighbor for the memory.

[Was_Just19]

Excellent result.

[OldGuy]

Yes, it was, and my neighbor is looking more closely at PCLinuxOS, we chatted for a couple of hours today.

Especially when I told him about updating, LiveCD, and no virus.