REDHAT 5.1 INSTALL FAILS

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From: Doug Moir
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 00:00

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thanks in advance for any help!!!!!!

i have a pentium 233 with 80 meg ram, 3 hard drives totalling 10 gigs, 2 meg
s3 video card, 8 meg 3dfx card, 32x cdrom, and currently running Winbore 98.
i have one of my drives free to install linux but keep getting the following
error.
originally i was trying to install from hard drive but as i thought this was
my problem i bought the cd's and im still getting the same problem!!!!!!
i've made a boot image disk with rawrite and this gets up and running,------
if i do install from hard drive using the supp.disk i get the following
error as soon as i get to Disk Druid
++++++INSTALL EXITED ABNORMALLY-RECEIVED SIGNAL 11-SENDING KILL
SIGNALS.+++++++++

a)whats going wrong?
b)what is signal 11?

when attempting to install from cd i get exactly the same error when linux
attempts to get the cd??????

can someeeone please help me as the how-toos,FAQ's etc dont seem to have any
info on my problem

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From: "Doug Moir" <dougmoir@tpgi.com.au>
Subject: REDHAT 5.1 INSTALL FAILS
Date: 1998/09/22
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