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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

We took the linux drive that let me install Realplayer 8 on the Gateway 
PII 266MHz and that did not let me install it (after I deleted it) on the 
PI 166 MHz but gave me 'translation table syntax error', and tried it on a 
PI 133 and got the same error messages.  Then we put it back in teh 
Gateway and got the same error messages and it would not install.

What is going on?  Did the software somehow get changed by moving it 
around between computers?  On one computer there was a complaint about 
zimage not being a disk image and it would not load linux at all.

I did a websearch on these messages and found related topics in Japanese, 
Hungarian, and WinNT (something about don't make changes to teh registry 
or the operating system will be affected).  Any ideas what happened here?

I could wipe the drive clean and start over.  Or is there something that 
might have been changed when I moved it around, that is no longer correct 
for the original computer?  It would only take about 1 hour to start fresh 
but I want to learn something from this mess first.  

The drive went to three computers before it came back:
1.  P166 where it behaved slightly differently from the original drive 
(error messages as well as seg fault).
2.  AMD 300 where it would not recognize the zimage or boot linux
(and then the origianl drive would boot linux but got the same error 
messages)
3.  P133 where it got the same error messages.

Then back to the original computer with the same error messages, which it 
did not original get (it originally installed).

We will check for viruses just in case.






On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> I am trying to find computers that will let me install Realplayer 8, which 
> many people at the Real Linux users' forum report won't install.  Instead 
> they see 'segmentation fault'.
> 
> Summary of previous chapters.
> 
> 1.  On my no-name pentium with Intel P166 cpu (f0 0f bug) it does nothing 
> but tell me segmentation fault, when I try to install using the X3 server.
> 2.  On the COmpaq AMD K6 500Mhz (with reset problem fixed by hdparam) it 
> says segmentation fault but installs anyway.
> 3. Ron Clarke reports having installed to AMD K6 400MHz.
> 
> 
> Today's events:
> 
> So I put together a 200MB test hard drive with BL2 (the minimum needed for 
> hard drive) plus xbin.tgz, xvesa.tgz, and in order to use icewm also 
> xpm.tgz (needed by icewm) and bl2-x.tgz.  Xvesa and icewm work fine 
> without the other files formerly suggested for X, and Opera installs and 
> works fine (but with system fonts only as I did not install other fonts).
> 
> I used a Gateway 266 PII froma friend (known good board).
> 
> 4.  RP8 installed perfectly with no error messages.
> 
> 5.  I took this drive to the P166 and substituted for the existing linux 
> drive.
> Tried to install and this time I got several pages of:
> Translation table syntax error.  Unknown keysym name:
> (followed by many different names)......
> Segmentation fault  
> 
> With the original drive in there I got only 'segmentation fault'.
> 
> 6.  Since it installed on the Gateway PII and on two 'fast' AMD's (my 500
> and Ron's 400) I next tried moving that drive to the AMD K-6 300.
> 
> Big surprise - it refused to load BL2 to either ramdisk or hard drive, 
> told me I did not have a real disk image. I put in a new copy of zimage, 
> did not help.  What is going on here?
> 
> 7.  So I removed that drive and ran linux from the original hard drive in 
> the AMD 300.  I tried to cable over Opera and Realplayer with plip, as 
> before, and was told nc:  Connection not established.  I used the numbers 
> that worked with other pairs of computers but they did not work here.  How 
> do I figure out the proper addresses (host names) for this pair?
> 
> We ended up transferring the files via DOS llpro.  THe parallel ports work 
> fine in DOS.  Then copying to linux and installing.
> 
> This time linux let me boot (on the original hard drive) but when I tried 
> to install Realplayer I got the Translation Table errors and Segmentation 
> fault.  A real disappointment as I thought this computer was my best bet.
> 
> So far Realplayer has installed on 2 of 4 computers and it is not the 
> software which is a problem since the same software works in one computer 
> and not in two others (in fact the drive won't even boot in one of the 
> computers).  If it were a problem of the drive being too slow for the 
> compute,r it should have worked in the PI 166 where it did not, but it did 
> work in the PII 266 MHz.   (P = Intel)
> 
> We have 5 other computers to try this in not counting 6 DFIs (3 different 
> motherboards, Intel or Cyrix CPU).
> 
> Summary to date:
> 
> Installed on AMD K5 400 and 500 MHz, NOT on 300MHz
> Installed on Intel PII 266mHz, not on PI 166MHz
> 
> I don't know if it is the processor or the motherboard so I will try 
> another PI 166 and a PI 233 (Intel).
> 
> Anyone want to bet on the outcome?  I was betting on the AMD 300 to work.
> 
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