[ale] real weird installation problem

[jukebox]

thank you , it worked!!

Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\" wrote:

> >From my experience with similar phenomenon, I'd say try to put more
> physical RAM to your box, even just temporarily for installation purpose.
> I've done quite a few this way. After installation, I took away the temp
> extra RAM, the system stil works fine.
> If you don't have extra RAM handy, probably you need to do special low_RAM
> installation. i.e., special boot diskettes and all. Debian has something
> like that.
>  Jerry Yu
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> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, jukebox wrote:
>
> #i've got a problem that has only started recently. when i try installing
> #or upgrading linux, as it starts loading the OS from the cd it sends me
> #a "install exited abnormally -- received signal 7        sending
> #termination signals.....done        sending kill
> #signals.......done             unmounting
> #filesystems......elements         /tmp/rhimage       /proc      you  may
> #safely reboot the system"      the kernel and boot disk load normally,
> #this only happens after i have selected the packages i want. i have
> #tried using the default bios settings. i don't think its my version of
> #linux because this happens with both mandrake 6.0 and redhat 5.2.
> #my computer is a pentium 133 with 16 megs ram and seagate 1080meg hd. i
> #have a trident tgui9680-1 video card with 1meg ram. there is also a
> #ge2500III pci ethernet card and a sanyo crd-254p cdrom.
> #please help because i really can't get anywhere without being able to
> #install.
> #thanks
> #rob
> #