I`ve had a similar problems with redhat. It turned out to be write errors
,to the drive.
make sure you check for bad blocks at the format stage of all disks.
also it could be a device conflict (eg irq, io port )
regards
John Rogers
OCE Australia
System Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Adams [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2000 07:43
> To: alex galloway
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: installing redhat linux from cd-rom onto a 386 with a
> mitsumi cdrom
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, alex galloway wrote about, Re: installing redhat
> linux from cd-rom onto a 386 with a mitsumi cdrom:
> >
> > 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)
>
> No, that means the swap space was installed correctly.
>
> I dont know off hand what signal 9 is, could it be that your disk is full,
> just how big are the defined partitons.???
>
> >
> > bwt... i haven't rebooted since the crash... so all the info is still in
>
> > front of me.
>
> Its not a crash, the system was halted because a a problem.
>
> > do you suggest that i reboot? will i reboot into DOS, or into some
> crippled
> > form of linux?
>
> It wont boot, as lilo will not have been installed. you could try booting
> from the boot disks you have, there will however be problems.
>
> >
> > 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?!
>
> I would have defined double that amount of swap, but that should be enogh
> to install, however i am not saying it IS enough, lets see if i can find
> the signal code somewhere, or maybe someone else knows it off hand.
>
> >
> > thanks folks!
> >
> > -ag
> >
> >
> > > >
> > > > onward! :)
> > >
> > >Let us know.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > -ag
> > > >
> > >
> > >[SNIP]
> > >
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