Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
Usually memory modules get life time warranty, consulte it.
Fry's replaced the memory without charge, and that seems to have fixed it. After replacing the memory, I installed 0.94 without problem, and I've done a gcc boostrap and test. (The latter didn't show the speed-up I expected, but it is possible I need a faster disk than the old UDMA/33 disk in there now.)
I had tried using the old memory and specifying badram=, but that didn't help. However, I'm not 100% sure that was just because of the bad memory. It lools like the disc1 I downloaded from mirrors.kernel.org was corrupted (it didn't match the MD5SUM, even when downloading it to a completely different machine). Plus I have suspicions of the cd drive.
Anyway, 0.94 seems to be running well. I've found a couple of bugs that I'll report on bugzilla. (X11 doesn't recognize the serial mouse that it did recognize during installation; rdhat-config-services hangs if you start-stop-start vsftpd.)