Every time I try to install Redhat 7.0 on my computer it crashes and dumps this text . . . 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 1480, in doInstall if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath, self.hdList.selected()): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in systemMounted self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] + \ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 258, in filesystemSpace space.append((mntpoint, isys.fsSpaceAvailable(topMount + '/' + mntpoint))) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 16, in fsSpaceAvailable return _isys.devSpaceFree(fsystem) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') Local variables in innermost frame: fsystem: /mnt/sysimage//dos ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Here are the specs of my computer MSI 649D Pro-A motherboard a single 800EB PIII 128MBs of PC133 ECC memory a 46gb Maxtor ATA/100 hard drive connected to the onboard UDMA 100 Promise controller a Pioneer 10x Slot loading DVD drive connected to the ATA/66 controller a Rendition Intense 3D 100 video card a SBLive sound card a Microsoft Internet Natural Keyboard and a Microsoft IntelliMouse. With all the specs aside, here is exactly what happened when I started having problems with the Redhat installer. The first time I installed Redhat 7.0 I didn't have a problem except having to pass the IO address of the hard drive at the lilo prompt and booting of a floppy. The reason, I was booting from a floppy was I wanted a dual booting system with Linux as the second partition behind a 13GB WIN32 partition. I was going to install Kernel 2.17 once I got my system the way I wanted it, but before I could do that Linux died. My computer and all it's components are just fine . . . but Linux is dead. I had just about everything configured the way that I wanted it but the sound card. I went to configure the sound card using the sndconfig and that is where all my problems started. I forgot that I had an onboard sound card when I launched the utility and it chose that instead of my SBLive card. Sndconfig choosing this card shouldn't have been much of a problem but I had disabled the onboard sound in the bios and wasn't watching what I was doing, always dangerous. I proceeded to click through all of the options until I came to the test part when the utility hung. I had no choice but to reboot and didn't think much of it until when Linux started up again it tried starting sound and then hung again. So I again rebooted and tried going into the interactive startup, but that was all to no avail. Seeing that I couldn't disablethe sound startup any other way, I decided to reinstall Linux. This option, however proved as futile as the last two and here is why. Once I restarted with the Redhat 7.0 install CD 1 in the drive I proceeded to boot my normal way. After booting, I ran anaconda, deleted the partitions, created new partitions and proceed until anaconda died when it was trying to mount the partitions right before it starts installing the selected RPMs. I have tried everything, fdisk /mbr in DOS. Deleting the partitions in DOS and creating a Extended DOS drive that takes the rest of the drive up and formatting it. I have tried running E2FCSK at the bash prompt under the Linux cd but it won't run on /tmp/hde because it says that there is a invalid starting block. I think that running e2fsck on the drives would fix my problem but I can't do it. If anaconda automatically checked the drives before trying to mount then I believe this would solve my problem. I would work on the problem myself, but my other school projects and programming assignments get priority. If you have any other ideas about it let me know. I really would like to get Linux up and running, but right now I havent had any success. Thank you for your time, Eric Meek
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