Fedora install exits abnormally - "received signal 15"..

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Tue Nov 11 21:58:48 UTC 2003


At 13:46 11/11/2003, you wrote:
>After getting some great advice from others on this mailing list regarding 
>FTP installation of Fedora, I was able to begin an install using FTP on an 
>older Sony laptop.
>
>I thought everything was going great when I saw that the Fedora install 
>logged into my FTP server and began downloading Fedora/base/netstg2.img, 
>but the screen eventually blanked out (I think after this file was 
>downloaded?  The NIC was obviously transferring data and then stopped) and 
>I got the following message:
>
>"install exited abnormally -- received signal 15"
>
>And then the install shuts down.
>
>Is this something I might be able to fix?  The laptop is a Sony PCG-505G 
>w/ a Pentium MMX.  The NIC I'm using is a Linksys PCM100.  (I tried a 
>couple other NIC's without success, this PCM100 finally worked and got 
>DHCP, logged into my FTP, etc.)

How much RAM is in this computer? I had two computers (P/166 both) with 32 
MB barf on FTP installs, and in each case increasing RAM to 64 MB made the 
FTP install proceed normally.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com





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