Karine ZUERCHER wrote:
>At the MDK 8.2 RC1 installation stage where it copying the packages to the
>HD, I get errors randomly on packages (once this one, the next try, another
>one) and sometimes the whole installation freezes with a:
>
>Segmentation fault: seems like memory is missing as the installation crashes.
>
>
>(My Hardware:
>Intel Pentium III 733MHz
>ASUS P2BF
>512MB SDRAM
>Graphic Card: ATI Rage 128 - 32MB TVout
>SCSI adapter: AHA-2940 U2W
>Pioneer DVD-ROM (ATAPI DVD-106s) 16x
>CDRW Yamaha CRW8824s (SCSI)
>Sound Card: Creative Live
>
>HD config:
>hda: (7500rpm UDMA66)
>hda1 2.4GB vfat (c:\)
>hda5 3GB ext2 (/mnt/old-home)
>hda6 256MB swap
>hda7 4GB ext3 (/mnt/old-root)
>hda8 7GB vfat
>
>hdb: (7500rpm 40GB)
>hdb1 20GB vfat
>hdb5 4GB ext3 (/)
>hdb6 512MB swap
>hdb7 15GB ext3 (/home)
>)
>
That is not a problem of RC1. That is most likely a problem with the
HDD hardware, or possibly with the CD. Sometrimes very high speed
drives have the wrong rotational latency and don't read the CDs well,
but more often it is on the /mnt side where the packages are being
installed where {DriveReady SeekComplete} errors occur.
Without seeing your system a little more clearly, I am shooting in the
dark, but my bet is either the burn is not reading well or your drives
are WD brand, which is where I have seen 98% of these reported problems.
Western Digital _officially_ does not support linux or most other op
systems, only windows and Solaris (the latter only with their SCSI
line). One of the reasons is that their hardware requires special
drivers to make up for a deficiency in regard to the required 57 byte
CRC for ATA-66 or higher, which the drive does not do.
Civileme
