At 06:54 PM 1/17/00 +0000, you wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, alex galloway wrote about, Re: installing redhat
>linux from cd-rom onto a 386 with a mitsumi cdrom:
> > thanks, very helpful. i finally got it to work by entering "0x320,11"
> after
> > it askes for "mcd=" although it requires a try or two before the cd
> > actually spins up.
>
>Yes, i was ready with a solution, i fired up the old 486/DX/2 66 with the
>mcd cdrom, i managed to get redhat to see all the addresses the card has.
>
> > now... i've got to deal with a crash during the install process... right
> > when it it says "adding swap..." it crashes and exits the installer.
>
>That is possably because you have defuined the swap space but said no to
>formatting it.
>
>I dont know the deatails because you dont elaborate, however do you mean
>the "whole" system freezes,??? normaly speaking you can hit ALT-F2 or 3 and
>still be able to use a console and enter commands, one handy command is
>fdisk, you can crate a swap partition that way, i have never done it that
>way, but i think it should be possable, even in Redhat.
the alt-F1 alt-F3 alt-F4 and alt-F5 commands still work fine.
but on the main page (alt-F1) it says this:
install exited abnormally -- received signal 9
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
unmounting filesystems...
/tmp/rhimage
/mnt/proc
/mnt/
/proc
you may safely reboot your system
and this happened after about 30 minutes into the install process, during
the installation of the dev-2.7.7-1 package. anyone know what a "signal 9" is?
the reason why i suspect that it has something to do with the swap space on
my drive is that if i hit alt-F4 the last line before the crash says this:
<6> adding swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
bwt... i haven't rebooted since the crash... so all the info is still in
front of me.
do you suggest that i reboot? will i reboot into DOS, or into some crippled
form of linux?
about the swap space..when i set up the swap partition, i made it of type
"linux swap" and assigned 16mgs to it (since my machine only has 15mgs RAM,
i figured that that would be enough). although if it tried to add 16596k
should i increase my swap to 17mgs?!
thanks folks!
-ag
> >
> > onward! :)
>
>Let us know.
>
> >
> > -ag
> >
>
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