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Since the 3com 3c900b card I've gotten isn't quite supported yet (darn those 3com people), I've been trying to do an installation from a local hard drive. The configureation I have is this. 2 IDE drives on the motherboard controller 1 Adaptec 1542 with a tape drive and an 8gig SCSI drive. I used the tape drive to transfer the data from a FTP site distribution to the SCSI drive. I deleted all the ls-lR files, and made all the files world readable and executable. The error I'm getting is when it gets to the second stage install... erro 2 reading header: Success cpio failed on (null): (internal) install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 ... and then it continues on in the usual was it does after recieving a signal 11. What's going on here?
It sounds like an error reading one of the cpio archives used to unpack modules, installer code, etc. Perhaps there was a problem transferring the files from the FTP site to tape to your machine. You may want to try making a CD image instead.