[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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