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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Symptom:
The kickstart installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 fails with a signal 11 error. The kickstart installation was configured to obtain the IP address and hostname information from a DHCP server. The installation files for the operating system were being obtained from an NFS share on a network installation server.

The IP address and hostname assignments appeared to work, but just after this, the installation aborted with a signal 11 error.

Solution:
The signal 11 error usually means that there is some sort of problem with the physical memory in the computer. However, in this case, the kickstart installation failed with the same error on multiple machines.

It was discovered that NFS was not running on the installation server. As soon as NFS was started, the error went away and the kickstart installation completed without error.

If you are performing a kickstart installation using FTP, HTTP, NFS, please make sure the appropriate services are running on the network installation server.