On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Riba wrote:

>
>On Sep 3, 2004, at 6:57, Martin Husemann wrote:
>
>> FWIW - I just succesfully compiled apache-1.3.31nb4 on a sparc running
>> a ~1 month old -current.
>
>Yesterday I suspected a failing hard drive after I got two different
>errors on two attempts to compile the same package.
>Last night I tried to install Gentoo Linux and it hung twice while
>trying to untar the base system on the hard drive. I'm pretty confident
>that all this mess is caused by the bad hard drive - I will try
>replacing it and give another go with NetBSD.
>

What errors are you getting? It could be bad RAM. Check with dmesg.


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