Here are, in column format, are the screen messages leading up to the
Signal 11:

Uniform CDROM driver Revision :2.56
Floppy drive(s) : fd0 is 1.44M
FDC0 is a post 1991 82077
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
     8regs:     86.487.MB/sec
   32regs:     63.627 MB/sec
using fastest function: 8regs (86.487 MB/sec)
scsi: 0 hosts.
scsi: detected total
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6>
RAMDISK:  Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Greetings.
Red hat install init version 6.0 starting
mounting /proc filesystems... done
mounting /dev/pts (unix89 pty) filesystem....done
checking for NFS root filesystem....no
trying to remount root filesystem read write....done
checking for writeable /tmp..... yes
running install....
running /sbin/loader


{at this point, my system went into a steady state with the cdrom light on
steady and the harddisk light on steady.

More text follows....

Traceback (Inermost last):
File /usr/bin/anaconda, line 121 , in ?
   from todo import ToDo
File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-package/dtodo.py, line 11 in ?
   from mouse importe Mouse
File /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/mouse.py, line 3 in ?
    from snack import *
File /usr/lib/python1.5/snack.py, line 7, in ?
   import _snack
Import Error: libslang.so.1: cannot reead file data: Input/output error
install exited abnormally
sending termination signals .... done
sending kill signals...done
unmounting filesystems....
		/mnt/sourde
		/dev/pts
		/proc
you may safely reboot your system


Very truly,
John F. Kohler
217 Fairlawn Avenue
Daly City, CA

jkohler2@earthlink.net
(650)756-7191


I have found this failure to be repeatable.
I can still install Red Hat 5.2 and Red Hat 6.0 successfully.
My system is a pentium -90 with 96 mbytes ram and 1.2 gig hard drive.