i have tried many times installing linux in my AMD K6 / 450 MHz , 64 MB ram computer. Almost all the times after doing 50 - 60 % installation error message comes "Installation exited abnormally Sending termination signals ....... "

Once i was able to install linux 7.1 sucessfully with minimum configuration without GUI that too after n no. of trials. But when i tried to upgrade it for installing other packages then unfortunately filesystem get corrupted and then i tried to reinstall but now it is not getting installed.

is this the error in my processor or something else. i have installed with the same CD in P3 and it was installed successfully.

please respond urgently

thanks

murtaza

I have a K6-500 running Redhat 8.0, so I don't think it's your processor.

That is a tiny amount of RAM though. I'm not sure how much a typical Linux install process uses. Anyone?

Deputy DooDah,

Depends on the distro and software. My Mandrake box says 32MB required, 64 MB recommended. Peanut Linux can run on a very minimal system.

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murtaza,

Hard to say what the problem is, but I doubt it's too little RAM. Could it be that the partition isn't large enough for the amount of software being installed?

-Bob

If the partition is not big enough, setup
would probably warn you. Have you tried
running a low level format on the hard
drive. Perhaps it is corrupted somewhere.
Try repartitioning it but make a note of the
heads/cylinders/sectors of the hard drive
and pass on those settings to both your bios
and fdisk (or whatever linux partitioning
program that you are using).

i m havig approx 4 GB for linux partition and i have increased RAM also by 128 MB. My total RAM now is 192 MB. Even then it is giving same error.

can u please tell me what is low level format.

thanks

murtuza

A low level format may be available in your
BIOS....alternatively, the hard drive vendor
may provide such a tool from their webite.

After a low level format, you will need to
partition it and then do a normal format to
set up a file system.