Is it just me. All of the mandrake packages have been complied for a pentium
class cpu, and there for would not work on a 486. I think you should give up
and try a differnet distro or get a faster P.c
Mark Hillary
Adam wrote:
> 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?
