From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Description of problem: I was installing on a laptop. I had an existing install winXP on /dev/hda1 and FC1 with a ~905M swap partition in /dev/hda5 and ~14G ext3 in /dev/hda6. I told the installer to install a fresh version (not the upgrade). When I got to the partitioning, I clicked auto, then back, then manual. Then I assigned "/" to the 14G partition and set both the swap and ext3 partition to format. Got the warning about my / not working for some systems and said continue. Then clicked on "format" A window with "Exception Occured" in the title with the following traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 766, in nextClicked self.setScreen() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1073, in setScreen exec s File "<string>", line 1, in ? File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/bootloader_main_gui.py", line 1 hbox.pack_start(button, gtk.FALSE) ^ SyntaxError invalid syntax Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): installing from FC2-test3-DVD How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: Tried to reproduce, but did not get the error. However I did not click auto then back then manual on the retry. Actual Results: Had to reboot and start the install all over. Expected Results: I expected the install to continue. Additional info: I have recently reinstalled XP so the bootloader had been overwritten by XP during the XP install. I did a search for other bugs and found 121798 but it looked like a different problem from what I am experiencing.
Did you verify your media according to the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html?
Did the media check for the DVD and it passed. The version is 1.92 DVD
Can you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'?
well, i was able to install the box originally. I Just didn't go into the auto partition before backing up and going into the manual partition. And when I tried to reproduce it, i could not get it to crash again. So I am not sure booting with ide=nodma will help determine anything. If you want me to do it anyway let me know and I will.