Terrapin wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:33:20 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, you wrote:
>
> >> when you have a signal 11 problem, redo the installation and switch to alt-f2
> >> at the selecting packages step.
> >>
> >> see
> >> % cd /proc
> >> % cat meminfo
> >> % cat swaps
> >>
> >> if you have less than 50MB of free space (ram + swap), you won't get to
> >> installing packages. In some cases, installing less packages will consume less
> >> ram.
> >Same problem here but i have 140 megs of ram on my system but
> >I'll check on next install maybe it doesn't see it all for some
> >reason.
>
> If you are doing an install and keeping your /home partition, you can
> record the debug messages just before the failure by doing:
>
> crtl-alt-F2
> cat ddebug.log > /mnt/home/debug.txt
> cat /proc/meminfo > /mnt/home/meminfo.txt
> cat /roc/swaps > /mnt/home/swaps.txt
>
> I have explore2fs which I run under windows to view linux ext2 files.
> Here is the link.
> http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm

Great..!  I have hdb with 4.3 gigs for windows itself, and I am installing cooker
from
my home partition '/home/ftp/pub/cooker'
so I can save the information now!  thanks for the tip ;-)

sk

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