This has been discussed here, and there are workarounds for it published on the internet, e.g. http://haikuzone.net/tips/installation/work-around-general-system-error-r1a2-installation Have fun! Marcos. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Glenn Holmer <shadowm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having trouble installing R1A2 on my test box, on which I > successfully installed R1A1. The partition is on the third drive (sdc2 > in Linux terms), and I wiped it from Linux beforehand (dd > if=/dev/zero...), then initialized it from the installer before > proceeding (I also tried deleting the partition and re-creating it from > the installer). I burnt two CDs from ISO images, one downloaded > directly, and one via torrent, and had the same issue with each CD. > > The problem I'm seeing is that the installation stops at "786 of 19264" > on file libwebcore.so with a dialog saying "An error was encountered and > the installation was not completed: Error: General system error". > > How can I diagnose what has happened and correct it? > > -- > "The text is only a proposition." -Pierre Boulez > Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) http://www.lyonlabs.org > > > >