I seem to remember the redhat support web site mentioning that Redhat
Linux is incompatible with the AMD K6. I hope that helps some.
Weston D Pawlowski wrote:
>
> Hello, I just bought RedHat Linux 5.0 for Intel. I tried to install it,
> but when it started copying GNU libc (filename starts with glibc), it
> says it can't unpack, then later on another file, it says something like
> path/file not found and kills the whole installer. I'm booting from the
> first RedHat Linux 5 CD-ROM. I set it to install nothing on the screen
> where it asks to install things like X Windows, Development stuff, etc.
>
> Before, it gave me problems with GNU libc saying it received some signal
> 11, and it killed the whole installer. I don't know exactly what I did
> that fixed that, maybe a BIOS setting or hardware configuration; I
> accidentally dropped a screw in my system and had to take everything
> apart trying to find it. When I put all of my hardware back and booted,
> it reset my BIOS settings. Then, that signal 11 thing went away.
>
> Hardware Info:
> I am using a 1GB Maxtor EIDE harddrive (1st IDE device), the first
> partition is 700MB for Win95, the second partition is somewhere around
> 200MB Linux (set to mount as / ), and the third is 32MB Linux swap. I
> have an AMD k6 200MHz w/MMX; I also tried using my old AMD k5 75MHz chip,
> but it did the same thing. I have 48MB 60ns 72-pin EDO RAM, a old Maxtor
> 129MB hard drive (4th IDE device) with 1 DOS partition, a Creative PC
> DVD-ROM drive (2nd IDE device, ATAPI), a MPEG decoder board, a Syquest
> EZ135 Parallel port drive (for Windows) on LPT1, a B/W QuickCam on LPT2:,
> a SoundBlaster 64 AWE, a GraphicsBlaster 3D w/4MB, a Boca Data/Fax 33.6
> modem on COM3:, a BCM SQ594 motherboard w/512 PB cache and dual EIDE, a
> MS compatible mouse on COM1:.
>
> Please reply ASAP. Thank You.
>
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