[wplug] Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?

[William Powell]

Questions:
1. Are both installs on different partitions of the same drive, or different
drives?
If you have a single drive, the drive could be bad. If the installs are on
different drives you might have a bad drive controller.

I am having problems also with a mandrake 8.0 install to an IDE drive, but it
had been so long since I worked on it, I can't remember what the errors were.

Bill



J Aaron Farr wrote:

> 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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