Re: Unstable Fedora Installation

From: Tony Nelson (tonynelson_at_georgeanelson.com)
Date: 10/25/05

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    At 5:49 PM -0400 10/24/05, Bruce Feist wrote:
     ...
    >My apologies for a newbieish question, but what's memtest? (Obviously
    >some kind of memory test, but I don't see a package for it, and man -k
    >doesn't turn anything up on it). Google turned up memtest86 -- is that
    >what you refer to? (I'm assuming so, and am about to create a boot disk
    >of it.)

    Boot from the install CD and run memtest from the menu.
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