Bug 26723

Summary: installer crashes in setFdDevice routine during normal installation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2001-02-08 20:58:21 UTC
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config:  dual 800Mhz pentium III, asus p2b-ds motherboard
... installation messages ...

Waiting for X server to start.. X server started successfully.
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 500, in ?
    extraModules = extraModules, pcicController = pcicController)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 550, in __init__
    self.setFdDevice()
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 592, in setFdDevice
    if not floppyDrive: return
NameError: floppyDrive
install exited abnormally
...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  normal graphical install
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Comment 1 Robert P. J. Day 2001-02-08 21:28:56 UTC
  never mind, apparently it's due to the host having a zip disk, and an updates floppy image corrects the problem.  thanks.