I got also a seg fault but may be because I was using the VC #2 to mount other partitions floppy HD msdos and Linux ext2 :-) But that happen before installing the system (I was just trying yo copy base1_1.tgz to avoid installing from floppies. In a second attemt I succeeded. That was today. A week ago I also tried and I got error readiong from the diskettes as you describe ( i did not know that that was a seg fault (today's experience was more wexplicit as I could read the message on the terminal #2). I do not know what happened yet. I just want to tell you that doubled checked the diskettes and they were legible. I tried again with new diskettes and succeeded. I tried again wwith the old ones and no problem. In summary: try and try and try. Maybe is something in the kernel whichwhere small things might not have been ironed out yet. Try this if you have time to experiment: Boot with the boot disk (I used the June 16 - set) when asked for inserting the root, trry inserting one of the base set ( I did it by mistake with #3). No problem, Linux (The kernel is in charge yet!!) see the problem and asks you politely to insert the root disk (with slightly diff message compred to the 1st time so things are going on internally). Ok then insert the root disk. pifffff! kernel panic! I wrote down the codes I'll send to linux later (I have to work now.. sorry) For my config (standard: ISA i486-DX33 + 16MBRAM + AHA1542 + 2 SCSI disks no NIC) I could repeat the kernel 3 times did not try more :-) I am afraid we'll have to wait for a while with 2.0.0 if robustness is your main concern. or... keep trying. just read that deb 1.1.2 was realesed. Check the new release is under stable/ (see my previous post) and coincied with buzz-updates/ Happy hacking! lazaro
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Seg faulting on installation of base... Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date: 27.07.96 23:48 Ok, I'm installing Debian-1.1-"fixed" from 3.5" floppies, and everything works just fine until it actually starts to install the base system. Installation prompts me for the first disk, I put it in, it starts installing and the gives me a Segmentation Fault. That's it. I've gotten it to do as much as 240K, but it usually stops around 60-100K. Then, of course, it wants me to try again. I'm running a Pentium 100 with 40 megs of ram, and I'm installing onto a 290 meg partition. I do have a 16 meg swap partition set up, and I'v tried everything from redoing the floppies to using a different rawriter... li'l help, please? ### Christian D. Jones Math, CompSci, Music, y'know--whatever... # # Harvey Mudd College Linde 212--x71443, (909)607-1443 WI ### 340 E Foothill Blvd http://red-october.st.hmc.edu/ BS # Claremont, CA 91711 Stupid--the Team, not the movie. TR
