At 11:13 PM 8/4/99 +0000, Richard Adams wrote [in part]:
> [someone else wrote:]
>>but while it is attempting to format the swap
>> space partition, I get the message
>>
>> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
>> In swapper task - not syncing
...
>BTW: i for one have never heard of any computer bombing out while installing
>a new system, by bombing out i mean having a kernel panic happen.
Richard - either you are luckier than me or you consistently use better
hardware. I've seen this (kernel panic during install) many times, for many
different reasons, including both bad hardware (floppy drive, target hard
disk, motherboard/CPU) and bad install media (floppy or, once, the CD
itself). But you are right in that the original poster didn't say enough to
get a helpful answer. A **very** rough guess, just form when it occurred, is
bad memory or a m'bd/CPU problem -- but I wouldn't put money on it.
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