If I install Linux using the packages selected by default, all goes right. But if I change the selections, adding (and not removing) packages, install exits with this message: Install exited abnormally - received signal 7 The same thing happens if I upgrade my Linux system. Maybe this is a consequence of a I/O error happening while reading the CD-ROM
Is there any particular package selection that leads to this behavior? In general, we are not aware of any problems adding pacakges to the installation, so if you could provide us with a specific example that causes this behavior we will try to replicate the situation in the lab.
For example, if I select the package group KDE, when I install the system from scratch, I receive the error message. I have not tried adding individual packages during install, but I tried it during upgrade (and it does not function). Maybe you can find useful to know that I have an old 2X CD-ROM driver from Sound Blaster (Panasonic) that never had problems with CD-ROMs. Anyway, if I install the KDE-related packages from GNO-RPM, everything runs normally. Also, I remember that a time, when install failed, I saw also this message : "VFS - Kernel panic" or something similar. During upgrade I saw this message too in the installation log screen : "I/O error while reding sector xxx" referring to the CD-ROM. The bug can reside in the handling of the I/O errors.
Have you tried different install media. It could be a bad cdrom disc. Also our installation support people may be able to help better on this problem. We have not encounterd similar problems in our test lab so I would suspect media problems.