Bug 10598

Summary:	redhat 6.2 uses zip disk for swap
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mike Gerdts <gerdts>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	gerdts
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Description Mike Gerdts 2000-04-05 14:52:30 UTC

I installed Red Hat 6.2 from scratch on a machine that had a zip drive.
During the installation, a disk was in the drive.  Today I found that the
machine was behaving rather poorly and I noticed that my zip disk light was
blinking.  Taking a look at /etc/fstab, I find:

# grep swap /etc/fstab
/dev/hdd1               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

Which is my zip drive.  This symbolic link was set up by the installer (or
some other magic in my system):

ls -ld /dev/zip
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Apr  4 07:49 /dev/zip -> hdd4

During the installation, I booted from the boot.img floppy, initially
selected a custom installation, then clicked back when it started to ask me
about partitioning.  I changed nothing in that druid-- just clicked back.
I then selected the GNOME workstation configuration and had an altogether
uneventful installation process (which is how it should be).

Comment 1 Mike Gerdts 2000-04-05 15:18:59 UTC

See also bug 10599 -- ejecting the zip disk is not a solution either

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-04-05 16:14:59 UTC

The current workaround is either to manually partition your system, or allow
it to automatically partition but not have a disk in the Zip disk. The second
option seems to give your particular system problems (I have an IDE zip drive
and I haven't had problems installing 6.2 without a disk in the zip drive).

Comment 3 Jay Turner 2000-04-18 12:03:59 UTC

Definitely something that we might want to add the the features-list for the
next release.

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2000-06-12 18:46:09 UTC

Should be fixed in latest developmental release - please verify in test lab.

Comment 5 Brock Organ 2000-06-20 22:28:14 UTC

this is fixed for the next release ... removable drives will only appear in disk
druid in expert mode ...