On 25-Apr-98 Jil Tardiff wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I could really use a hand. I've been sucessfully running RH 5.0 om my
> laptop at work.....networked, PCMCIA Zip support and all. It's been
> great.
>
> I tried to install it on my desktop machine today and got *nowhere*.
>
> Hardware:
>
> PII-300
> 128 Meg SDRAM
> Plextor SCSI CD-ROM ID=3)
> Ricoh CDR (ID=0)
> Adaptec 2910b (recognized as a 2940)
> SCSI ZIP
> SCSI Jaz
> SCSI Scanner
> 2 IBM HDD.....6.4 meg with 4 Meg for Win95 and 2.4 left for Linux
> 2.1 meg for scratch video work
>
> Everything works in DOS and Win95.
>
> Scenario:
>
> All peripherals are *on*, I boot off the floppy and the install picks up
> the controller as a 2940, usually takes a few tries to get the SCSI cdrom
> (and only the Ricoh..probably because it's SCSI ID is first) and
> everything
> starts out OK. It recognizes both disk drives and the ZIP and the Jaz.
> I'm installing on an extended partition of the first (6.4 HDD). I
> partition with fdisk and when I try to write the partition (option"w") it
> says it can't read and that I should reboot making sure that there are
> disks in the Jaz and ZIP drives.
>
> When I do this I get all the way to the point where it scans the drives
> "Scanning Hard Drives" (presumably to get the partition info) and the
> install blows up with a "Signal 11 received"...system shut down, etc.
>
> I have subsequently tried multiple permutations....terminating the chain
> on
> the scanner (so no Jaz or Zip seen), etc...everything I can think of and
> I
> get no further.
Every time I've had to install RH5, which has been many, I've had to turn
off (or unplug) everything SCSI except the CDROM. When I don't I get the
error as you describe.
If the installer sees anything else on my SCSI chain, it hangs and crashes.
Once installed, I plug it all back in or tun it on, add things in by hand
and everything then works.
This wasn't so with 4.2 and I suspect the install script is a bit buggy.
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