Well, here's one to keep in the back of your mind! I was getting a Signal 11 installation abort at the "Scanning Hard Drives" stage of a RH 5.0 . Completely infuriating. Signal 11s are *usually* hardware related so I did everything that peolple suggested: shutting off cache, pulling RAM, slowing the bus speed, stripping the SCSI chain (sounds like a fun Sunday, huh?).....nothing worked. So I tried just doing a basic install.....just /, /usr and swap. No good reason. And it worked. It flew right past the "Scanning the hard disk" screen. I couldn't believe it. So, of course, being an experimentalist by heart and by trade I went back and fiddled with partition size and numbers of filesystems and cylinder number limits. It seems that on my machine, if I try to set up any more than 16 partitions (up to /hda16) on a disk....it blows. So I combined one of my Win95 partitions and was able make a /, /usr, /home and swap. Unfortunately there are 700 unused Megs at the end, but they'll be fine to hold CD-ROM images. The rest of the install went very smoothly...recognized my Zip and Jaz. Not my Linksys ethernet card (I think it may be sharing an IRQ in Win95) but it is not crucial for the Linux setup. Of course, with my luck this is a well-known limitation that I just didn't know about... Apparently SCSI HDD can only have 16 partitions...mine is an IDE, but this obviously still holds...but a very misleading error message! I just thought I would share the solution in case this problem comes up for anyone else. Thanks to everyone for the help! Jil -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
