On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:14, civileme wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 June 2001 21:49, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > I started this thread Wed, 20 Jun 2001 and I'm still trying. I
> > can't believe it's this difficult. I made a brand new local mirror
> > of
> > sunsite.uio.no::Mandrake/8.0/i586/ using rsync, without exclusions,
> > on my main machine, and tried installing from network.img floppy
> > using NFS export.
> >
> > The repository was found, 2nd stage install started, used existing
> > partitions and formatted /. Selected packages (recommended, no
> > individual) then the installer crashed:
> > * reading /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
> > * done
> > * segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the install
> > crashes
> >
> > This is reproduceable. I have a report.bug - can I send it to
> > someone?
>
> Ummm, I have seen that statement many times... It almost always
> means one of three things.
>
> 1. Cable to HDD needs removal & reseating or outright replacement.
>
Bingo! I had an old SoundBlaster CD connected to the same cable and, of
course, it's not really an IDE but a proprietary interface, although it's a
40-pin cable. Funny thing is, it has been working OK in Windows98 and
Mandrake 7.1 as an IDE CD-ROM.
> 2. "Hole" in HDD (if you are using WD hard disks you never know till
> a verify step occurs (and WDs is where this happens from disk based
> problems)
>
> 3. Yep, like the proggie says, memory. /images/memtest-x86.bin is
> your friend. Just dd it to a floppy and boot with it on your install
> target.
>
That's what I suspected, so I ran memtest-x86.bin all night, all tests,
without any failures:
Pentium 166.2MHz
L1 Cache 8K 553.9Mb/sec
Memory 64M 79.1Mb/sec
Cacheable 64M
Thanks for the tips!
--
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.
Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ )
Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586
Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1
Uptime 4 days 1 hour 46 minutes
