[wplug] Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?

sendai sendai at thedustyshelf.com
Mon Sep 17 17:15:29 EDT 2001


Segmentation Fault almost always means RAM.  RAM is segmented and a 
segmentation fault occurs when data is written to another segment and then 
unattainable from the writing segment.  That is the REALLY dumbed down 
version but you get the idea.

Nick

On Monday 17 September 2001 10:24 am, you 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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