Topic: Signal 7 error

[Russell Best]

I have been trying to onstall e-smith 4.1.1 for some time, but each time I try the installation exits with a "signal 7 error". Reading through the phroum (and anything else I can find) these errors are attributed to either a bad CD or hardware problems.

I burned the CD using "easy CD creator" (as per the instructions elsewhere in the phorum) but I am unsure how to verify I have a good copy.

I have tried the install on 2 machines (P133 & P166 with 32Mb RAM) using 2 hard disks (10Gb & a brand new 20Gb) with all combinations of availible RAM, each time I get this signal 7 error at the same point of the install.

I would be grateful if someone can tell me how to confirm my CD is good and/or how to identify where the hardware problem lies.

[Nathan Fowler]

Reburn the CD.

[Russell Best]

Solved the problem. In case anyone else is interested it turned out to be having the install CD drive and target hard drive on the same IDE channel.