Bug 33890
| Summary: | RH 7 fails to install on a SONY VAIO laptop | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <emil> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-03-29 15:48:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18032 *** Despite the harsh rethoric againt RedHat people I've seen in the bugs list, the install anaconda bug is not that bad. It is true that the update image disk does not exist any more at its html link (which is annoying) but after a short research on this site one can understand that basically for "Custom" installation which forces "Manual disk partitioning" the preexinsting Windows/DOS partitions should not be assigned mount points. I did just that and I have a nice custom install on my SONY VAIO of RedHat 7.0. When up and running, using linuxconf I could easily mount my Win98 partition, so no big deal. I have tried Slackware 7.1 (try to exit X as a normal user !?), Corel Linux and others. I don't want to even begin to say how involved it is to write GUI code on Windows. Not even the path concept works decently for their "MS-DOS terminal". So if not the only alternative, RedHat 7.0 is certainly one of the best escape from the Windows bondage. |
I am trying to do a custom installation with the option "Everything" on my SONY VAIO PCG-F370 laptop. Since my laptop uses a PCMCIA Ethernet link, I have to boot from floppy the pcmcia.img, but the actual installation is from the local CD-ROM. It works fine (including self start and autoprobe for X11) until it has to actually start installing packages, when I get the nasty window saying "This is probably a bug. Dump this and send it to bugzilla.redhat.com". This is the state dump: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1480, in doInstall if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath, self.hdList.selected()): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in systemMounted self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] + \ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 258, in filesystemSpace space.append((mntpoint, isys.fsSpaceAvailable(topMount + '/' + mntpoint))) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 16, in fsSpaceAvailable return _isys.devSpaceFree(fsystem) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') Local variables in innermost frame: fsystem: /mnt/sysimage//win98 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If I choose Workstation installation with Automatic Partitioning then RH 7 actually installs. I guess I could then install package after package with gnoRPM, but it would be nice if I could get this installation the short way. Thanks.