[wplug] Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?
J Aaron Farr
jaaron_farr at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 17 11:24:10 EDT 2001
Okay, straight to the point: While installing Mandrake 8.0 I got the
following error:
SEGMENTAION FAULT: SEEMS LIKE MEMORY IS MISSING AS THE INSTALL CRASHES
Any suggestions as to what to do from here?
Here's the long version of the story:
I started have serious problems with one of my personal computers that was
set up with a dual boot Win98/Mandrake 8.0. It started with Win98 having
fatal errors (corrupted or missing system files, or sometimes reporting a
corrupted registry), so I reinstalled Win98. Windows overwrote my boot
record, so I lost the ability to boot my Linux system. Well, Win98
continued to have problems from time to time, and eventually, simply
wouldn't boot. It'd report a corrupted registry, say it had fixed it with a
backup and then restart, only to do the whole thing over again. I had all
my personal Linux files backed up (but not my windows files), and I had just
gotten new copies of Red Hat 7.1 and the latest stable Debian distro, so I
thought, what the heck, I'll just install over Mandrake and try out the new
distros and then I can mount one of my windows partitions and at least save
my windows data. Well, neither of the distros would install properly, both
would hang or crash at some point. So I thought to try to reinstall
Mandrake 8.0. That's when I finally got the above error. So currently my
system has Win98 on it that won't boot, and it's partitioned and formated
for a Linux system too. What can I do (other than booting to DOS and saving
my windows files to floppy) to save my data and get a working operating
system again?
Thanks
jaaron
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