Hello, I noticed the mention of sig 11 in the Problems that may occur section of you user guide. Here's my experience: I had two (relevant) problems installing Linux Mandrake on a new machine (Celeron 300a on Abit BH6 MoBo with Seagate UDMA 2 HDD); Problem 1 (not sig 11 related): I downloaded the Mandrake distribution from Sweeden, patched it with the latest patches at Redhat, including the boot disks from Jan 3 1999, and burned a few copies for myself and my friends. None of us could format our HDDs during the install proceedure: the mke2fs command returned straight away, and then later the install quit when it tried to mount the HDD. We had to start the install from a RH 5.2 CD, quit after the format, and then start the Mandrake 5.2 install. The mke2fs provided on the rescue disk does work, so when I had to reinstall, I used that to format my linux partitions, before starting the Mandrake install. Also, I installed over a network from my original ftp download, on to a machine in the office here, and that did format the HDD, so maybe something went wrong with my CD image? Problem 2: During the install, with my HDD and CDrom on the same IDE chain, install would always quit with sig 11. Moving the cdrom on to the other IDE chain solved this problem, and install completed with no problem. Further complication: My Seagate Medallist Hard Drive seems to be sensitive to overclocking; (I think it's related to use of DMA, as linux does by default). If I increase my bus speed to 83MHz, the HDD all but erases Linux (by writing 0s to group descriptors and inode tables). Running at 66MHz or 75MHz is no prob, and 100MHz is fine too, as then the PCI bus speed drops back down to it's default value (my CPU fries then though ...) Steven
