Summary says it all. I assume this might be a dup of 15302, but bugzilla won't let me see that bug. Doing a ftp install, it cherns away installing about 400 packages and when it has 86 to go it crashes. So I cut the CD's do do a 'normal' cd install and it appears that this is the place where the ftp install should have asked for cd2 to be installed. Looks like it forgot to ask and then tried to open a undefined variable. BTW, When trying to do a nfs install, I could never get the machine to mount the remote directory. I could access it from other machines just fine. Since the installer doesn't provide much info here, I can't imagine what I can supply to help you trace this problem down.
ftp installs can only install with all packages in a single directory.
I think you missed part of the point - while yes I think you should make ftp installs support the second disk, the issue here is that anaconda CRASHED. That simply put, should NEVER happen. If it crashes its broken and needs fixed. You can take the cop-out solution, of simply printing out a message that 'foo isn't supported', but it is a bug.
Marked as a request for enchancement, added to future feature list.
I don't think there is anything that can be done if you cannot get the required packages from the ftp server. Perhaps we could prompt to 'Retry' to get the file. We could certainly try to pop up a nice dialog box before bailing out.
Related to bug number 15982.
The reason I think this should be handled, is that the way I make the ftp images available is by downloading the iso images and then mounting them in loop back mode. I thought this was a common approach. With the data split across 2 cd's in 6.9 It is very hard to meet the requirement that all the rpm's exist in the same directory.
*** Bug 12805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving to RESOVLED - DEFERRED from CLOSED - DEFERRED
Related to bug 15982.
It is now possible to loopback mount the isos as disc1/ and disc2/ and have an ftp install work.