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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!akdam.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Tarkan Akdam <bambi@akdam.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Signal 11 during nfs install Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:18:22 +0100 Organization: Car Audio Repair Specialists Message-ID: <3353FEAE.41C67EA6@akdam.demon.co.uk> References: <5idphr$dmn@deun23.corp.newmont.com> <5ie2n1$qae@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: akdam.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: akdam.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39116 Frank McConnell wrote: > > In article <5idphr$dmn@deun23.corp.newmont.com>, > someone signing as Warren Steffen but hiding behind > Your Name <Yourname@somwhere.COM> wrote: > >I am trying to install 2.1.5 on a 386dx system via NFS from the DCROM > >on a Linux system. After the screen where the network address are > >entered, I get the message indicating a Signal 11 was received and > >"I'm done" which it is! I have disabled all devices not on my system. I > >am using a Linksys 16 NIC card as ed0. The I/O address is 300 and the IRQ > >is 15 (which work on Win95). > > No, I have no idea how to resolve this. But I have seen it too, and > ended up pulling the CD-ROM drive off of the server and installing it > in the client system (a 486DX33 with 8MB and cheap NE2000 clone as ed0). > Once installed it worked. > > I have also seen a similar "Signal 11" problem trying to install > 2.2.1-RELEASE via FTP from a local server, but it waited 'til after > installing all selected distributions (bin, info, manpages). As it > happened I had a bin distribution that didn't un-tar properly -- don't > know how that happened (yes, I was doing binary FTP), and at that point > the simplest thing to do (since the machine I was re-installing was my > router) was to re-do the install over the PPP connection. > > In future I think I will be installing exclusively from CD-ROM. > That seems to work a lot better, and I don't need that much of > a CD-ROM drive for it. > > -Frank McConnell The only time I have seen Signal 11 is when the machine has suspect memory modules, It seems to occur when you have a memory intensive task running and if your memory is not up to scratch, it will cause a signal 11. sorry I dont know the exact science of it, but hope this helps Tarkan