When the install crashes, can you press <Ctrl><Alt><F4> and see if there are any
error messages there?

The signal 7 has now changed to a signal 11.  I checked where you said to look, 
and the only thing that looked like an error was a line that read:

Unable to identify CD-ROM format

Also, there were some devices sharing IRQs, but that shouldn't be a problem, 
right?

Can you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma' and see if that helps?

I had already tried it, but I just got a different error at about the same 
place.  I'll try it again though and record the error.

Ok.

I tried running linux ide=nodma, and again anaconda exited abnormally, but 
without a Signal 11.  Under <ctrl><alt>F4, nothing looked different than 
before.  Under <ctrl><alt>F3, the last line was "looking for USB mouse" but 
that could be the same as before.  Also, under F4, the last few lines were:

raid0 personality registered as nr2
raid1 personality registered as nr3
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
...(here it output some test results)
raid5:using function: p5_mmx (3284.800 MB/sec)
raid5 personality registered as nr4

I don't know if that last part means anything, but it was the last few lines 
under F4.

It's hard to say what the problem is.  It's not getting far enough into the
installer for me to do any meaningful debugging.  Can you look on VC1 and see if
you see a line that says "Running anaconda"?  If you don't see that, then
anaconda hasn't even started, which means there either a kernel problem or
there's something wrong with the hardware.

It definitely did say "Starting anaconda"

Were there any more messages at all on <Alt+F1> ?

Actually, the error message changed again.  The entire output after "running 
anaconda" under <ctrl><alt><F1> is as follows.

Running anaconda -- please wait
exec: Exec format error
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals...done
sending kill signals...done
disabling swap...
unmounting filesystems...
     /proc/bus/usb
     /mnt/runtime
     /mnt/source unmount failed ()
     /dev/pts
     /proc
you may safely reboot your system

I see this same error on a dual-processor 1GHz Pentium III... Running on an 
ABIT VP6, latest BIOS.  It happens on both fail-safe and optimized settings.  
I've tried everything I can think of to solve this, including disabling the USB 
bus, turning off my Adaptec card, etc.

I see exactly the same errors as the previous reporting person.

I have an Adaptec SCSI controller with a single CD-RW attached.  I can give 
more thorough specs if you want.

try booting with "ide=nodma"

Just like before, that didn't work, but now I got a Signal 11 again.  By the 
way, I also tried Expert mode, and I got through a few screens, but anaconda 
exited at the exact same point.

this is a data corruption error and will have to be handled kernel level.

So, what do I do about that?

This is almost certainly a hardware issue. I assume none of these systems
are overclocked ?

Nothing's overclocked at all.  I've used the video card control panel to boost 
the speed on that, but that should only affect the Windows driver, right?

Can you update me on this?  It's been almost 2 months, and I recently tried it 
again, getting the same errors.  I'd like to know if there's been any 
progress.  Thanks.

Somehow your cdrom drive has problems reading the cd. Would it be possible to
do either a network install or an install from harddisk (where you copy the cd's
(as iso files) to harddisk first) ?

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