[ale] real weird installation problem

[Zhongbin Yu " <zyu at premtec.com>]

Last time I looked, I think this should be considered to be bug in RedHat
installation. To me, I don't think installation should require sth more
than a running system.
At the point it's ready to install the software, the file system on hard
disks have already been mounted, so, the installation should switch to use
that instead of keeping using RAM disk, at least the /tmp file system (or
is it /var/tmp?? ) which temporararily holts RPM database or alike during
installation. 


Jerry Yu
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On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, jukebox wrote:

#thank you , it worked!!
#
#Zhongbin Yu \"jerry\" wrote:
#
#> >From my experience with similar phenomenon, I'd say try to put more
#> physical RAM to your box, even just temporarily for installation purpose.
#> I've done quite a few this way. After installation, I took away the temp
#> extra RAM, the system stil works fine.
#> If you don't have extra RAM handy, probably you need to do special low_RAM
#> installation. i.e., special boot diskettes and all. Debian has something
#> like that.
#>  Jerry Yu
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#> Systems Engineer        | zyu at tc.net
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#>
#> On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, jukebox wrote:
#>
#> #i've got a problem that has only started recently. when i try installing
#> #or upgrading linux, as it starts loading the OS from the cd it sends me
#> #a "install exited abnormally -- received signal 7        sending
#> #termination signals.....done        sending kill
#> #signals.......done             unmounting
#> #filesystems......elements         /tmp/rhimage       /proc      you  may
#> #safely reboot the system"      the kernel and boot disk load normally,
#> #this only happens after i have selected the packages i want. i have
#> #tried using the default bios settings. i don't think its my version of
#> #linux because this happens with both mandrake 6.0 and redhat 5.2.
#> #my computer is a pentium 133 with 16 megs ram and seagate 1080meg hd. i
#> #have a trident tgui9680-1 video card with 1meg ram. there is also a
#> #ge2500III pci ethernet card and a sanyo crd-254p cdrom.
#> #please help because i really can't get anywhere without being able to
#> #install.
#> #thanks
#> #rob
#> #
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