I tried to upgrade a HP Pavilion 8650C that was previously running RH6.2. 
Everything seemed good but after loading LILO, I got the
Loading vmlinux......

And then it hung.

I tried to a clean install of RH7.0 (using the same partition table) and it
failed with this error (it asked me to save it to a floppy and mail it to
you).

[root@m5 ahearn]# more /mnt/floppy/anacdump.txt 
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line
20, 
in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1470, in
doInst
all
    self.fstab.turnOnSwap()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 406, in
turnOn
Swap
    isys.swapon (file)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 142, in swapon
    return _isys.swapon (path)
SystemError: (1, 'Operation not permitted')

Local variables in innermost frame:
path: /tmp/swap/hdb10

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
[root@m5 ahearn]# more /mnt/floppy/anacdump.txt 
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line
20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1470, in
doInstall
    self.fstab.turnOnSwap()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 406, in
turnOnSwap
    isys.swapon (file)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 142, in swapon
    return _isys.swapon (path)
SystemError: (1, 'Operation not permitted')

Local variables in innermost frame:
path: /tmp/swap/hdb10

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>
[root@m5 ahearn]# more /mnt/floppy/anacdump.txt 
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line
20, in run
    rc = self.todo.doInstall ()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1470, in
doInstall
    self.fstab.turnOnSwap()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 406, in
turnOnSwap
    isys.swapon (file)
  File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 142, in swapon
    return _isys.swapon (path)
SystemError: (1, 'Operation not permitted')

Local variables in innermost frame:
path: /tmp/swap/hdb10

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>