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Name: Jolyhils
Date: March 20, 2001 at 10:08:29 Pacific
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I'm trying to install linux redhat 6.1 on an old 486. It has 12 mb ram, a 4x creative cd-rom, a future domain "TMC-1610M" SCSI adapter (SCSI ROM BIOS for 18c30/18c50/1800 v3.5)
and a 500 mb IBM SCSI drive. It currently has msdos 6.22 installed.

I boot using the boot disk for linux and select text interface. I click cancel on driver disk, and then add device. I select SCSI and then the Future domain driver. The fdomain0 driver gets loaded and it says the it got detected. I then start a custom install and set up a 12 mb /boot, a 64 Mb swap and the rest on / . I click OK and then it says I'm low on resources and wants to write the swap space right away. I click ok and then after a moment I get the following error :

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 225
in ?
intf.run(todo, test = test)
File
"../../../Redhat.instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages.text.py", line 1000, in run
rc= apply (step[1](), step[2])
File
"/mnt.redhat/comps/install/6.1/i386/Redhat/instimages/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/textw/partitioning.py",
line 171, in __call__
File
"../../../Redhat/instimages/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/todo.py", line 689, in makeFilesystems
isys.swapon ('/tmp/' +device)
File
(/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/isys.py", line 20, in swapon
return _isys.swapon (path)
SystemError: (22, ' Invalid argument')

I then have the option of ok and debug.
Ok shuts the machine down.

What is wrong and what can I do to fix it?

Any help would be greately appreciated, Jolyhils



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Response Number 1
Name: malkowiich
Date: March 20, 2001 at 23:37:15 Pacific
Reply:

I believe you don't have all the files that came with the RH 6.1 release


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Response Number 2
Name: Jolyhils
Date: March 21, 2001 at 04:37:59 Pacific
Reply:

I got the files on a cd. THe cd came with a book so all files have to be on there. I installed ok before on oher computers. Could the cd-rom maybe not be reading properly?


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