Re: Reinstalling problems

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Wes (Moo-Juice) wrote:

> I've been re-installing netBSD (cause i forgot the bleedin password
> after months of not using it). Having booted into the install kernel,
> popped the 1.6.1 acorn32 cd in and selected a: install, it goes through
> the procedures and installs. However, when it's unpacking its files, it
> keeps comming up with a "Segmentation fault - core dumped" error, just
> as it opens a new .tgz package. It has happened now to different
> packages, so its not like theres anything specific missing off the cd.
>
> I'm using the latest boot32 loader and the install kernel.

Have you tried with the bootloader and install kernel you used for
installation last time?

> Machine is an A7000+ with 40Mb ram, 105mb allocated to / (a:), 165
> allocated to swap file (b:) and (e:) is /usr with the remains of the 2gb
> partition.

Does reseating your RAM help at all?

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