From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I tried installing fedora core 4 and it exits after saying that there is a serious error while trying to format partition sda3. This is the ext3 partition with mount point /. I tried to do this 3-4 times and everytime it gave the same error! Raghu Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert the Feodra core installation cd 1 2. go through the complete paritioning process 3. Finally, it quits while trying to format the partition. Actual Results: What is to happen? It just reboots before installing!! Expected Results: ?? Additional info:
Can you provide the complete traceback you received?
Closing due to lack of response by reporter. If you can provide the trackback, please do so and reopen. It cannot be fixed without more information (it could, for example, be a hardware problem with your drive from the description you've offered.)