Re: Signal 11

[Allan Nelson <anelson jump net>]

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, portelli wrote:
>I get a signal 11 error when i try and Install linux.  Why?  I know
>it is a hardware error, and I think it has to do with my hard drive,
>because i get it when it tries to creat the file system.  Any
>suggestions or work arounds to this?

Signal 11 is an error that indicates that the program running at the time tried
to use memory that didn't belong to it.  If this is happening when you are
installing it is possible that you have a corrupted version mkfs or mke2fs.  If
you are installing from CD try another one if you have access to it.  If from
the net try redownloading the software.
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Allan L. Nelson			
UNIX System Administrator
Oracle DBA