Bug 58602
| Summary: | Installer throws exception from os.mkdir at end of install | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Laurence Cotton <laurence.cotton> | ||||
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-02-22 11:20:42 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 43014 [details]
Description of hardware and an example of install settings used
Did you enter a mount point for /dev/hda1 in Disk Druid? I see its a FAT partition, so it isn't necessary for the install to complete. I would try installing w/o specifying any FAT mount points and see if the install completes. Then afterwards we can add them to your system once its booting. Yes, I entered mount points for both windows ME (/dev/hda1) and windows 200 (/dev/hda5). When I install without specifying these mount points the install process completes successfully. Thanks for that. Do you know what command I use to add these ? Do you know why the exception was throuwn if I include them during installation ? laurence, you can add mount points for your windows partitions by added entries for them to the /etc/fstab file. Since you say that your ME partition is on /dev/hda1 and Win2k is on /dev/hda5, the lines that you need to add to /etc/fstab will look like: /dev/hda1 /mnt/winME vfat noauto,owner,users 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win2k vfat noauto,owner,users 0 0 Then, you'll be able to say 'mount /dev/hda1' to mount the WinME partition on /mnt/winME and 'mount /dev/hda5' to mount the Win2k partition on /mnt/win2k. I'm not sure why the traceback happened in the first place, though. msf, any ideas? I've seen a number of these types of problems in the past, but I've never been able to reproduce it. Was /dev/hda1 a pre-existing partition? Or did you make it in fdisk? /dev/hda1 existed as a windows partition before I installed linux. When I set up the partitions using disk druid I tried to mount it as /dev/hda1. /dev/hda1 is not a valid mountpoint. You need to use something like /mnt/windows. The current partitioning framework is smarter about not letting you choose mountpoints that are invalid. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Installation disks frm : SAMS Teach Yourself Red Hat Linux (ISBN 0-672-31845-8) On attempting a first time install the installation seems to proceed Ok until near the end when an exception is thrown. It seems to be thrown from the call to os.mkdir(path, 0755) in iutil.py. Final error message is OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/mnt/sysimage/dev/hda1'. See attatchments for full details. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert install disc 1 to cd rom and reboot 2.Select default install 3.Follow install wizard (custom) - used disk druid to set partitions 4.Select Install Actual Results: Message appeared : Formatting Filesystem and the install process continued by formatting the partitions and then installing the selected components. The process seemed to be almost complete when the exception was thrown. Expected Results: Linux installation completed and reboot giving an option to boot into linux. Additional info: The traceback information displayed when the exception is thrown : 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 1631, in doInstall self.fstab.write (self.instPath) File "fstab.py", line 742, in write iutil.mkdirChain(prefix + mntpoint) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iutil.py", line 193, in mkdirChain os.mkdir(path, 0755) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/mnt/sysimage/dev/hda1' I currently also have windows ME and windows 2000 installed. My harddrive before the installation attempt is set up has folows : size: 20G C: 1.37G (Windows ME) D: 13.6G (Windows 2000) E: 4.02G (For Linux)