[NTLUG:Discuss] signal 7 aborts install

[Chris Cox]

Check www.deja.com.  Looks like this is usually an indication of a HW or
HW configuration problem.  There's a German posting regarding large
HD's....maybe (with translation) it can shed some light.

Excercise left to the reader....
Chris

Peter Koren wrote:
> 
> I have also posted this to the newsgroups.
> 
> I tried installing Linux ( tried all of these: RH6.1, Suse 6.3 and
> Mandrake 6.1) on an AMD K6 200MHZ system that was already running
> Linux. The clean install failed with a signal 7 late in the package
> install phase in all cases.
> 
> I used the existing two IDE hard drives, floppy, Matrox Mystique PCI
> video card, Adaptec 1510 SCSI card, keyboard, mouse and monitor from the
> 
> above system that failed and built a new system around a new
> motherboard, new RAM memory, and new Celeron CPU.
> 
> Installing still fails late in the package install phase when it gets a
> signal 7 (BUS ERROR).
> 
> I've got to think that the only thing left is to blame a hard drive, but
> 
> could that cause a signal 7?
> 
> If anyone has an idea on this one, please let me know.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Koren
> 
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