Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 20276
Installer fails on Sony Vaio PCG-N505SN
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
When installing RH7 using the boot.img disk and the files on a the local hard disk, the installation fails during/after the checking packacges stage with; Traceback (innermost last:) File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 438, in ? intf.run( todo, test=test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", line 33 in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 43, in readComps File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459 in __init__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in readCompsFile File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in __getitem__ KeyError: file Please not this Vaio does not have an internal CDROM or Floppy, both are attached via a USB port when needed. I am booting successfuly from the Floppy, and installing from the hard drive as I am aware that RH7 does not support reading or writing from storage devices via USB. I am willing to test any fix you may have.
Please make sure you downloaded all the files for the install with the binary ftp option. There is something corrupt about the hard drive install image you are installing from. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18019 ***
The image was copied from a CD. The CD has been used to install three other machines without issue. I am unable to use the anacoda unpdate disk as is relies on reading from the floppy drive during the install, and as the installer can't read from USB storage devices the update disk can't be read. Please reopen this as a bug as your suggestion using a binary transfer under FTP is not applicable.