from my experience with "signal 11" it's usually some sort of hardware
conflict. I can't remember any further information besides that, but I
hope just knowing it may be a hardware conflict will help.
bascule wrote:
>
> i have finally managed to get a copy of the i486 iso that passes the
> md5sum, but everytime i try to install it on my 486 i get an error:
>
> install exited abnormally - recieved signal 11...
>
> is 'signal 11' just a kill signal or does it tell me anything about what
> might have happened. i have made a cd of the iso and tried to install
> that way and also i have set up the cd as an nfs mount and tried that
> (thanks to all those who helped me out a while ago with networking
> questions!)
>
> doing an altf3 after the install stops shows the last line of that
> console as *removing device file /proc
>
> alt f4 gives (6)Adding Swap: 25196k swap space (priority -1)
>
> alt f5 gives Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:
> done
>
> the install fails after choosing the packages and letting the install
> get on with formatting etc.
>
> i think i have a hardware prob but i'm not sure where (an install of
> win95 went ok!)
>
> there is an outside chance that i did not burn the cd right but i only
> say this because depite burning such things for a while i noticed that
> unlike the i586 cd (a pressed one) the long filenames on the i486 cd are
> only completely displayed on my other mandrake box, in win98 they are
> shortened which the i586 names aren't - does this mean a mistake in
> burning?
>
> sorry to ramble on a bit but this is frustrating!
> any ideas?
>
> bascule
>
> p.s. anyone care to correspond direct who knows about staroffice5.1 and
> macros?
