On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 11:10:04AM +0530, Aruneesh Salhotra wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying to install RED HAT LINUX on my system.
> The hard disk is of size 4GB. I allocated 1GB as LINUX native and 100MB
> as swap space.
> During the installation proces (after selecting the packages, the amount
> of data bytes required was shown as 544MB), but during the installation
> was on, the system crashes, giving me a termination signal 11. Can
> somebody tell me, the reason why this could be happening.
It has happened to me before, but I haven't investigated it. If you would
like to, boot with a floppy and look in /tmp/install.log to see what
went wrong.
A retry usually succeeds for me.
>
> I have one more query. When i run AUTOBOOT from DOS, then it enters the
> UNIX mode, and starts the application /sbin/loader.
> After that it is done, it starts probing for the Mouse Type, it gives
> the message "Start X failed, falling back to text mode).
> Can someone give some insight into that, like what does it mean by Start
> X failed. ? Does the X environment gives a GUI based installaion
> screens. ?
If you're using RH 6.1, yes it has a GUI (Python + Gtk) based install.
-Arun
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