[wplug] Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?

[Scott Presley]

I would suggest checking your RAM.  I ran into problems of a similar nature 
a few months ago.

>From: "J Aaron Farr" <jaaron_farr at hotmail.com>
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>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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