Bug 103000
| Summary: | should format before package selection | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Felix Miata <mrmazda> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-05 03:23:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is difficult to do without requiring more RAM. With the current installer framework, I'm not planning on changing this around. |
Description of problem: Format early, right after setting mount points, so people don't waste so much time if format fails. That's how Mandrake does it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 9 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to reproduce: 1.Attempt dd graphical NFS install 2.Spend considerable time on package selection 3.After format failure, see alert saying press <return> to reboot 4.Click on OK button in alert Actual results: unexpected reboot Expected results: Asked me where to save package selection list before rebooting. Additional info: Except for formatting, I fully prepared /dev/sdc prior to booting from bootdisk.img for an NFS install. Since this was my first RHL install since 7.3, I spent considerable time in package selection, probably close to two hours. Only after spending so much time did the installer attempt to format the selected partitions. I had chosen to scan for bad blocks on /, so formatting also took considerable additional time at this point. When 100% was reached, an alert came up to say format failed due to excessive bad sectors, telling me to press <enter> to reboot. I didn't want to reboot, as I expected some means to save a package selection list. I clicked OK on the alert, and the system rebooted immediately. After this failed install, I immediately ran IBM's DFT program three times successfully on /dev/sdc, which means format should not have failed. 53c875 SCSI no ATA K6/2-550 CPU 256MB PC100 SDRAM SiS530 Chipset Realtek 8139 NIC Yamaha 744 Sound Brand new install target device /dev/sdc IBM DPSS Expected results really should be yet another enhancement request bug.