On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jul 2, 2004, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Not sure what would cause X to crash at that particular point in the > > install, though. It's just going through the package load. FWIW, the > > graphics card is a Matrox Millenium, so nothing touchy should be going on > > there. The install has failed twice at about the same point. I didn't > > observe the first one so I'm not sure if it's *exactly* the same point or > > not. > > > Also, I've got limited RAM. The installer doesn't complain, though, > > except that it turns on swap right after the partition step. > > Maybe you just need more swap space. I had a box that mysteriously > failed to complete graphical installs (text installs were fine) until > I needed, for unrelated reasons, to add more swap space to it. At > that point, graphical installs worked again. In retrospect, this is probably correct. Anyway, text install worked fine. Next install, maybe I'll repartition. Thanks. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
