Text of error: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 336, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 678, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClicked self.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self.nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 466, in setScreen new_screen = screen.getScreen () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/package_gui.py", line 427, in getScreen self.todo.getCompsList() File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 539, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 16, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages, arch, matchAllLang) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 360, in readCompsFile raise TypeError, "comp file version 3 or 4 expected" TypeError: comp file version 3 or 4 expected Local variables in innermost frame: arch2: i686 ----- Updates applied with no change: update-disk-20001009.img anaconda-vfat-label-fix.img Installer crashes every time after Authentication Configuration. PC stats: Pentium III 600, 128M, 13gig, Matrox Video Windows NT pre-installed, 2008 meg C: FAT partition, 11000 meg D: NTFS partition. Attempting to put a 500meg /boot partition, and a 12000 meg / partition with a 380 meg Swap partition.
what is your install source ...? a CDROM ...? network based ...? Hard drive ...? I ask because the installer is right at the point of reading the package information, but the error indicates that the file containing that information (comps) is not in a proper format ... can you verify your install source ...? we've seen similar problems with bad ftp downloads or other issues with copying the source media ...
The install source is boot from cdrom. The same thing happens with a diskette image, then proceed from cdrom. The cdrom iso was downloaded from a mirror (I forget which).
Problem has been resolved. A corrupted comps file. I downloaded another iso image from eecs.umich.edu and re burnt the cd which now works fine. The original (corrupted) iso image came from cs.wisc.edu.
glad to hear your problem is resolved ... thanks for your report!