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Old 06-06-2001, 05:03 AM   #1
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Hi,
Just like rest of the community I was happy to see Redhat come out with 7.1. So I tried installing 7.1 on my AMD-233 30HDD 98MB RAM machine. Annaconda starts fine.. X-cofiguration is much easier than before. The installer formats my 30Gig hard dirve. I select all the packages. Now its start transfering the install image to the Hard disk which is successful. But soon after that.. before the package installation starts.. the installer quits with the message.. "Installer terminated abnormally"
and starts sending kill signals. I have been trying for last one week and am not planning on giving up.

I would appreciate any help to reduce my frustration.
Thanks
Suresh
 
Old 06-06-2001, 05:46 AM   #2
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tenacity, good.
virtual consoles, better :-]

when installing use the next key combo's to run around the different output screens for clues -why- it fails and -where-:
1 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F1] installation dialog
2 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F2] shell prompt
3 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F3] install log (messages from installation program)
4 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F4] system-related messages
5 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F5] other messages
7 [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F7] X graphical display

If u can, determine the next things:
-enough RAM
-enough swap space
-hardware compatibility
-drives & partitions checked for errors

Other stuff IMO would be using text-based install and not installing every package on the disks on the first run.
 
Old 06-08-2001, 12:08 PM   #3
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I had a similar problem. My machine is PII 266mhz with 10GB. The BIOS only supported partition sizes of less than 2GB. Try making the first partition (starting near the beginning of the disk) /boot with 16MB and root and other partitions less than 2GB. Hope this helps.

 
  


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