[RULE] Re: Rule 0.8.0 and signal 15

[Al Bennett]

Dear Marco and All

First of all, Marco, thanks for responding so quickly and pointing me in the
direction of this list.

I have some good and bad news, bad news is that I haven't figured out the
signal 15 problem I had.  The good news is that I managed to get Redhat 8
installed on my old P120 using the slinky iso (with a bit of work).

I'd still be very interested to hear if someone's figured out what went
wrong with miniconda, I'm still puzzled.  I didn't mention in my email that
I was going to choose a hard disk with iso images install.  I can't remember
if I was asked for installation method before it asked for the updates disk
(where it sig 15'd) but maybe that was related as anaconda bombed when I
chose hard disk install but it was happy to install from cdrom.  In case
you're wondering, I didn't use the cdrom option because the drive in that
box is flakey and the install never gets more than halfway through before it
craps out!

Anyway, I'm happy that I did get installed using Slinky and I'd like to
thank the developers again for this project, I'd never have got Redhat on
that old machine without it!   If there's someway that I can help the
project in the future, I'd be interested to know (although I don't have a
great deal of spare time at the moment)

Right I'm waffling now, so I'll be off.

Regards

Al



----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti at inwind.it>
To: "RULE list" <rule-list at nongnu.org>; <al at plasticfish.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 5:55 PM
Subject: FWD: Rule 0.8.0 and signal 15


> Al,
>
> First of all, thanks for your compliments about the project, is nice
> to see that RULE is felt like the solution of *real* problems.
>
> I am forwarding your message to the RULE mailing list, both because I
> don't know the answer myself, and because in that way any answer
> remains in the archive and I can add it to documentation, sooner or
> later.
>
> Please subscribe to the RULE list (even temporarily, just to fix this
> problem of yours) to receive and try any feedback directly. The URL to
> subscribe is reachable from our web page.
>
>   Ciao,
> Marco Fioretti
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Al Bennett <al at plasticfish.co.uk> -----
>
> Subject: Rule 0.8.0 and signal 15
> From: "Al Bennett" <al at plasticfish.co.uk>
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 15:20:22 +0100
> To: <marco at rule-project.org>
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>
> Hi Marco
>
> I found the Rule project after much searching for help installing Redhat 8
> on a low memory system.  I really like what you have done, it's fantastic
> that some people have decided to fix anaconda's crazy memory requirements.
>
> I do have a problem though, I'm still getting the same error as with
> Redhat's own version of anaconda!  I'm probably doing something stupid
here
> but I could use your help figuring out what's going on here.  Basically
I'm
> using a old P120 with 24 meg of ram (planning to install Redhat 8).  I
> couldn't
> find miniconda version 8 from the link provided in the installation
guide(at
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/miniconda/).
>
> Somehow I ended up finding it at
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/miniconda/miniconda-v0.8.0/ (which
I
> think might be someone's personal box...) I downloaded boot.img and
> updates-0.8.0.img which I rawwrite'd onto floppies.  I booted with the
boot
> disk fine, then when it asked for the updates I stuck that in and it read
it
> for a bit then died with the same "install exited abnormally -- received
> signal 15" which I saw with the regular Redhat boot disk.
>
> At this point I switch to virtual term 2 and did a free and if gave the
> total as 21828 and free as 296.  So somehow miniconda sucked in almost all
> of the 24 meg available.  Am I using the wrong updates disk here?  The
boot
> floppy mentions Rule on the menu so it must be the right one.
>
> I'm going crazy here, I would appreciate any help you can offer.
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Al
>
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
> --
> Marco Fioretti                 mfioretti
> Red Hat for low memory         www.rule-project.org
>
> According to one popular definition, craziness is doing the same thing
> over and over but expecting different results.
>



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