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).
See also bug 10599 -- ejecting the zip disk is not a solution either
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).
Definitely something that we might want to add the the features-list for the next release.
Should be fixed in latest developmental release - please verify in test lab.
this is fixed for the next release ... removable drives will only appear in disk druid in expert mode ...