From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 15 13:17:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5D714E7E for ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:17:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1198.bossig.com [208.26.241.198]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:25:37 -0800 Message-ID: <3880E400.12ABB7E7@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 13:17:52 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Wilson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation Problems References: <001701bf5f93$be4aaf20$c8b4f5c7@smicro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Dave Wilson wrote: > > I purchased FreeBSD 3.4 January 2000 CDROM with a manual a few days > ago from Walnut Creek and am unable to install it. It seems that no > matter which install method I use, (Novice, Custom etc.) or which > machine I try to install it on (I've tried three) or where I install > from (CD-ROM, DOS partition etc.) I get a Signal 11 error and the > install crashes. I've tried downloading the latest floppy images > from the net. I've also searched some news groups. The only > reference to signal 11 concerns RAM. But, would I have RAM problems > on three different machines, one a brand new Micron? I am at a dead > end. I would appreciate any help you could give me. Thanks. What you are seeing is covered in the ERRATA at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT It is how you are choosing what to install that is killing it. Kent > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message