On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, alex galloway wrote about, Re: installing redhat linux from
cd-rom onto a 386 with a mitsumi cdrom:
>
> the alt-F1 alt-F3 alt-F4 and alt-F5 commands still work fine.
> but on the main page (alt-F1) it says this:
> install exited abnormally -- received signal 9
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals...done
> unmounting filesystems...
> /tmp/rhimage
> /mnt/proc
> /mnt/
> /proc
> you may safely reboot your system
>
> and this happened after about 30 minutes into the install process, during
> the installation of the dev-2.7.7-1 package. anyone know what a "signal 9" is?
>
> the reason why i suspect that it has something to do with the swap space on
> my drive is that if i hit alt-F4 the last line before the crash says this:
> <6> adding swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
No, that means the swap space was installed correctly.
I dont know off hand what signal 9 is, could it be that your disk is full,
just how big are the defined partitons.???
>
> bwt... i haven't rebooted since the crash... so all the info is still in
> front of me.
Its not a crash, the system was halted because a a problem.
> do you suggest that i reboot? will i reboot into DOS, or into some crippled
> form of linux?
It wont boot, as lilo will not have been installed. you could try booting
from the boot disks you have, there will however be problems.
>
> about the swap space..when i set up the swap partition, i made it of type
> "linux swap" and assigned 16mgs to it (since my machine only has 15mgs RAM,
> i figured that that would be enough). although if it tried to add 16596k
> should i increase my swap to 17mgs?!
I would have defined double that amount of swap, but that should be enogh
to install, however i am not saying it IS enough, lets see if i can find
the signal code somewhere, or maybe someone else knows it off hand.
>
> thanks folks!
>
> -ag
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