Invalid realloc size of 0 when installing on an AMD athlonXP barton powered machine

[jason]

Baldur Gislason wrote:

>I'm trying to install 5.2.1-rel from FTP with an intel 100Mb network card on 
>an AMD AthlonXP barton 2500+ with an Aopen AK77-8XN motherboard and 1GB ram. 
>When at 65% through extracting base, sysinstall crashes with the message:
>Fatal error: Invalid realloc size of 0! - PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT
>I know this is a very common problem these days, has any solution been found? 
>I'd rather sell this machine than using some other operating system on it.
>
>Baldur
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I have an athlon barton core on an epox 8rda3i.  I have never seen this 
problem and I cvsup every few weeks on current.  I have not done a clean 
install since last year.  Is that a local ftp or the net?  Can you make 
a cd from the iso, or do you not want to?  I have done both in the past 
and the cd is much faster, even if you hae broad band.  Maybe not if you 
have a t3 or better, but not all ftp servers will be fast all the time.