I had exactly the same problem on my cheapo work PC. I had to do an install minus man, misc and X and then go back and add them as a second pass.

My problem seems to be disk related - I get loads of crashes during heavy disk IO, but that also happens when running Linux. Installing something like QT takes about 10 runs of make after each segfault.

Solid as a rock on my Thinkpad 600X. If only the Xircom RealPort Combo Modem part worked I'd be laughing.

On 12 Sep 2002 19:09:20 GMT
MLH <MLH@goathill.org> wrote:

> A co-worker has an old SuperMicro 200MHz Dual Pentium Pro box that
> he tried to install NetBSD 1.6 on.
> (ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/200209080000 and an
> earlier release )
> 
> He gets as far as pax installing misc.tgz each time and sysinst
> coredumps with a segmentation violation. This is the same with
> either the dual floppy installer or a cdrom-based installer - that
> I've used now on 6 other Athlon and K6-2 machines. He thinks that
> pax continues to install misc.tgz after the coredump because the
> drive light continues to blink for a while after sysinst coredumps.
> 
> I cut a 1.5.3 cd for him to try and it installs fine. He went back
> and tried the 1.6 installer several more times, but it still
> coredumps. He is going to bring the box in next week so we can take
> a closer look at it.
> 
> The interesting part is that he had been running RH 7.1 but wanted
> to update kde to a modern version, and RH 7.3 wouldn't install
> either.
> 
> Any specific ideas on how to determine why sysinst coredumps on
> this hardware?
> 
> Thanks


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