On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > Those unimplemented trap errors are probably your unix partition running 
> > out of disk space.
> 
> I _hope_ not.  I think the code should catch disk full conditions.  It
> might be running out of memory, though--the default application size for
> the installer is too small.  You might try raising it.

Every time I installed too many packages, it would give me unimplemented 
trap crashes.  The only memory problems yield a sudden quit with an error 
message like Application unexpectedly quit, error -##.  Increasing the 
partition size seems to have cured it.  Of course that may be because I 
usually run the installer on a PowerMac to keep the PB 145 free.  In 
addition, the filesystem seems to get creamed whenever this happens and I 
end up redoing the mkfs.  I'm going to try my fifth (sixth? I lose count) 
installation tonight.  Maybe I'll have better luck.

On a semi-related side note, I tried to gunzip (with several mac-side 
utilities) a copy of netbsd 11.26 that I downloaded.  The PowerMac kept 
giving an error 11 and a restart box (misc. hardware exception error).  
The Powerbook correctly identified the problem as a bad file.  Probably a 
download error.  After all, the download took 25 minutes, poking along at 
600 bytes/sec.  Groan.

Later,

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