Linux can be *very* sensitive to memory issues.
Most of the CDs should ship with an option to run memtest - try letting that run overnight and see what it finds.
For a quick test I'd pull the 64Meg out, and run with the newer (???) - hopefully matched - memory, and boot one of the CDs. See if that gets you past the problem area.

About the least effort you can spend to see if Linux will run on an architecture would be to try a floppy-based distro. I like TomsRootBoot, which I've been able to run on everything I've tried, right down to a lowly 32MB 80386. It has enough tools to explore the system, and perhaps find something that other distros need to know about.

--- rod.

AMD K6 CPUs have a microcode bug in the HLT instruction. The kernel halts when checking for it. I ran across the same problem on a 500 MHz K6-2 box, with about any distro I'd try on it. Pass the 'no-hlt' parameter to the kernel at boot time and it should do fine.

I've given up the idea of a NAS...
A friend of mine tried to install several distro's of linux, but he didn't succeed either..
He advised FreeBSD.. I burned the boot only cd and put it into the machine, and guess what: it worked!!
Only he tried a network-install, but that didn't work, so now I'm burning the 2 install-discs
I guess it will work
so thanks for your help everyone!

Again, try FreeNAS. It's BSD based NAS.

I'm a newbie too (not ever installed/used linux)

I have an old Compaq Presario 5441, with a K6. I took rickh's advice and downloaded BeaFanatIX. It goes through the installation stuff just fine, but when it looks to load/go to the desktop, I get a black screen. My monitor flashes a message something like - in the wrong display mode...

I'll look at Slackware and DSL.

That sounds more like a simple X problem. If you use grub for your boot loader, that should be easy enough to fix. At the grub splash screen, press a key to get into the boot menu. Select the default menu item, and press 'e' to edit it. Append a '3' (init level 3, no X) to the end of the line, press enter to make it stick, and then 'b' to boot to runlevel 3. Now, go into /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and find the mode line, and remove the modes that excede the resolution of your monitor. Save. Reboot.

--- rod.

Have you tryed xubuntu?

well... after trying almost every Linux distro I gave up... sadly, because I liked the idea of Linux...
But I already had Windows XP running on it a few months ago, so I tried that again...
But during install I got the message saying that 'pci.sys' was damaged and I couldn't install XP...
I searched around on the net and I found out that it had to do something with the memory...
I took out a memory module and the install-process proceeded without a error, but sadly again a message came saying that there wasn't enought memory...
I tried another memory module but the pci.sys error came back...
So I guess I wrecked the memory slots by pulling out the hard drive...
I declared the machine dead.
And that's the end of trying to give my old PC new life...

Oh, by the way I put the hard drive the home pc to temporarily solve my free space problem

Thank You for all your help and effort!