From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 17:46:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from archer.fsr.net (archer.fsr.net [207.141.26.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8702C153E5 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mharsh@fsr.net) Received: from localhost (mharsh@localhost) by archer.fsr.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA23622 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mharsh@fsr.net) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:52:05 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Harshbarger To: freebsd-questions Subject: 3.4-release install problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been anxious to install the new 3.4-RELEASE via floppy and have been running into a problem. I've made multiple sets of floppies to rule out bad media as the problem. At the same repeatable point, the installer says: "A signal 11 was caught - I'm saving what I can and shutting [sic] If you can reproduce the problem, please turn Debug on in the Options menu for the extra information it provides in debugging problems like this." The last two debug lines are: "DEBUG: Command `/stand/gunzip < /stand/help/distributions.hlp.gz > /tmp/.doc/doc.tmp' returns status of 0 DEBUG: Signal 11 caught! That's bad!" What steps am I taking on the install? 1) boot from the two floppies 2) skip the user/device config (I've also deleted unused devices and this changes nothing) 3) select "custom" from the main menu 4) go through the "Options," "Partition," and "Label" menus without a hitch. (I usually turn Debugging on and change the Media Timeout to "30" in the Options menu) 5) select "Distributions" from the "Choose Custom Installation Options" menu 6) select "Custom" from the "Choose Distributions" menu 7) and boom. sig 11. As a side note, the screen displayed behind the "A signal 11 was caught" pop-up notice says: "