Hi!

I have an old laptop computer on which I'm trying to install FC1. As the computer is old, it doesn't incorporate a CDROM drive, so I had to download boot floppy disks to do an installation via the internet.

I downloaded the needed boot disk images, DD'd them and booted up fine. The fedora installer fired up, and I inserted the PCMCIA driver disk to load the drivers for the card. Fine. I enter the necessary TCP/IP network settings and the host and path for the mirror where the Fedora files are found from. The NIC fires up, lights flash and so forth.
The installer begins downloading the netstg2.img file and my hub starts flashing, so that's a sign that the network connections are OK.

Then all of a sudden, halt ->
"Install exited abnormally - received signal 15".

I imagine this is what others have seen also?
This was a graphical type installation, so I tried again using linux text, but to no avail. I checked the virtual terminals

#2 - Empty

#3 - Modules loaded
Here are couple of odd-looking lines

* going to activate device using pcnet_cs
* failed to activate pcmcia device
and
* module(s) md fat xfs not found

Yet the network connection was made, as in the fourth screen I was to find out:

#4 - Messages

<6>eth0: NE2000 (DL10022 rev 30): io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr yaddayaa
<6>eth0: found link beat
<6>eth0: autonegotiation complete: 10baseT-HD selected
<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0)
<3>Out of Memory: Killed process 12 (loader).[/i]

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I'm puzzled by these messages - I don't have a CDROM drive, and I'm trying to install the system by FTP. I had an old Windows95 installation on the hard disk but i destroyed all partitions, so the partition table is empty now. Could this be a problem? I first tried installing so that that W95 partition was still there, but the same problem appeared. So does this mean I have to create an E2FS file system? Yet, I am unable, because I can't find a rescue image on the Fedora mirror (www.funet.fi) I'm using - so I'm unable to use a shell, and therefore fdisk to make any filesystem.

How can I remedy this situation?

Any help would be appreciated!

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My equipment:

- HP Omnibook 900
- PentiumII 300MHz
- 4GB HDD / 32MB RAM
- D-Link DFE-650 Series PCMCIA 10/100 ethernet card

Well.. i managed to find a one-diskette distribution of Linux and create a new partition and file system on it, but the installation still halts to the same Signal 15. I started the installer in text mode using "linux text", mind you.

Also, the error messages changed a bit. The following bad ones look like this:

#3 - Modules loaded
module(s) md fat xfs not found

#4 - Messages
<4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0).
<3>Out of memory: Killed process 65 (sh).
<3>Out of memory: Killed process 12 (loader).

Also, I forgot to mention in the last post, is that all the four virtual terminals lock up and I can't see the scrollback of any of them.

Further also - this message pops up before the terminals lock up completely:

URLINSTALL falling back to non-GUI stage2 due to insufficient RAM


So I have 32MB RAM on the laptop - is that the problem that I can't install Fedora because I have too little memory? Do I have any other options than to purchase expensive laptop memory or trash it
Should I revert to another distribution, ie. Debian?

Please. ANY (smart) HELP appreciated!