Segmentation Fault while transferring Packages = bad CD?

[John Eckman]

I don't think, in my case, the error is a too small HD - I was installing 
into a 4.2 Gig partition.

Thanks for the list, though, and the advice to use RPM rather than yup.

At 04:20 PM 4/22/2002, Pete Peters wrote:
>John,
>
>Your question #2 was just answered by Christopher Murtagh to Joe Auty just a
>couple of hours ago. In his case, he had too small a hard drive. The
>solution was to do a Base Install, then rpm (forget using yup) the developer
>stuff. I'll forward that email to you separately in case you missed it or
>didn't see it.
>
>Pete
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Of John Eckman
>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 12:49 PM
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: Segmentation Fault while transferring Packages = bad CD?
>
>
>I have a YDL 2.2 CD purchased retail (Microcenter in Cambridge, MA).
>
>I have successfully installed from this CD to my PowerMac 7500/G3.
>
>However, I can only use the "base install" set of packages - if I try to
>use anything more (started with "everything," but "developer workstation"
>and "home/office" also fail) the installer crashes - segmentation fault,
>then it goes into halt mode, installer aborted abnormally, etc. Only option
>is to reboot the machine.
>
>Two questions:
>
>1. Could these segmentation faults be caused by a bad CD? I could download
>and burn the .iso to see if a new CD works.
>
>2. Is there a way to go from base-install to developer workstation from the
>command line? Can one mount the CD and install rpms directly from there? (I
>was able to mount the CD-Rom from linux, but then ran into errors trying to
>run YUP and installing XFree86. Seems like YUP couldn't read the installed
>packages database or something.)
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>John
>
>
>
>
>
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