On Mon, 31 May 1999, Greg Gray wrote:
> Downloaded a new ISO image from another FTP site (different from
> first), burned another CD. Booted from new CD, removed all
> partitions, created new partitions (200M swap, 800M /, 1000M /usr,
> 350M /var, 200M /usr/local - don't ask why I chose these, I'm posting
> to the newbie group for a reason :) ),
If you don't know what you're doing, it's probably best to have only 2
partitions, swap and /. That way, you won't run across "damn, I can't
install the program where it belongs because the partition is full, I'll
move it to /usr2 instead..." problems like I did with my very first
install years ago.
> First try: quit at about 85% finished package installation with
> "install exited abnormally - received signal 11 sending termination
> signals...etc., etc."
This could very well be a hardware problem (we're not getting signal 11's
here...) - did you overclock your CPU? Did you turn off caches in BIOS?
Are you sure all your RAM is working correctly?
LLaP
bero
