attempting install from hard drive from RH-7.0-respin. had to use hard drive, installer won't recognize my scsi cdrom (SONY on an adaptec, seems odd...). get up to choice of MD5, etc, for passwd file. leave at defaults, use "OK". blam... looks like the installer cannot perform the install from a read-only file system (jaz 2G w/ ro flag set, in this case)? since i'm not going to pass the jaz drive around the office writable this leaves us unable to install RH-7.0 for testing. 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 32, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 532, in getHeaderList File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 51, in readHeaders File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 30, in mountMedia File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 99, in mount rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly) SystemError: (30, 'Read-only file system') Local variables in innermost frame: fstype: ext2 location: /tmp/hdimage devName: /tmp/sdc2 readOnly: 0 device: /tmp/sdc2
note: problem is reproducable. i can send the entire dump if it would be useful.
Changed anaconda in CVS to mount hard drive install sources readonly -- good idea.
Verified as resolved.