[ILUG] Linux Installation Blues

[Dave Airlie]

Sounds like dodgy hardware, 

you can do the standard test, edit the kernel makefile and where it has
MAKE=make change it to MAKE =  make -j 8

Then re-compile you kernel and see if you get any Sig11's in gcc, 

Check your chip isn't overclocked also ... some dodgy dealers have been up
to this lately ..

Dave.


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On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Trevor Johnston wrote:

> I have been having enormous problems installing both SuSE 5.1, Redhat 5.1
> and Redhat 5.2 onto a Cyrix 6mx86, 233Mhz, 64Mb. The installation almost
> always crashes when installing packages; in the past it has been sufficient
> to go through the install process a few times, select a minimal amount of
> packages, and hope for the best - eventually it would work.
> 
> But tonight, after three hours of frustration, I could not upgrade from
> Redhat 5.1 to Redhat 5.2. After much coaxing, 5.2 refused to install and so
> a downgrade back to 5.1 was necessary - but even this only eventually worked.
> 
> Anyway, I presume twelve crashes is not supposed to happen. Is this a
> problem with Cyrix, me, Redhat, or is there simply a black hole (or
> something) around my house (or have I got a rubbish computer)?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone might have with this incredible problem,
> Trevor Johnston
> 
> PS
> As a sign of the frustration has caused, my return key is now detached from
> the keyboard.
> 
>