Using IBM THINKPAD 365XD (type 2625) 8MB, 1GB HD. Disk was reformatted with NO Disk partition for DOS. Booting from RH7 floppy with linux update 20001009.img. Install seems to proceed reaching the "anaconda - may take some time to load..." The cdrom seems to copy some stuff to the HD for about a minute or so, then i get: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 9 sending termination signals...done sending kill signal...done disabling swap... unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime /mnt/source umount failed (16) /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system
It sounds like perhaps your CDROM drive or the CD you are using has errors. What messages are on VC3 (hit cntl-alt-f3) when the machine appears hung?
it probes for a bunch of stuff as follows ide floppy - none found usb - none found video cards req. agpgart mod - found video card controller unknown probing buses - finished found nothing trying to mount device hdb - loopfd is 6 found url image cdrom:://hdb/mnt/source getting ready to spawn shell now probing buses - finished - found nothing going to insmod raid0.o (path is NULL) . .going to insmod ext3.o (path is NULL) looking for USB mouse ... and that is the last entry
Any suggestions on where to go with this?
This appears to be a hardware related issue. Do you have another system to test the CDROM install on with the CDs you have?
RH 7.0 CDROM and install works fine on 3 other non-laptop systems. Major difference is that this sys. is a laptop and only has 8mb of memory. Also tried installing RH 6.1 on same system. It exits with a similar but not exact problem. Instead of Signal 9 I think it got a signal 6? Would have to try it again 2b sure of exit message.
Anything else to try??
You need at least 20 megs of RAM to install 7.0.