Install RH 7.0 failed on Sony Vaio PCG-Z505SX. Install was attempted by downloading RPMS and base directories and using a boot floppy. Floppy is USB. This laptop has a memory stick which is viewed as a hard disk. The installer complained that partition table was not readable (I have no memory sticks), but proceeded after "skip drive" was selected. Partition was edited with disk druid to: 4.5M win95 fat32 (NOT mounted) 132M linux swap 1.262M linux native (mounted /) Note: The installer crashes before actually writing this to disk, during "reading package information" I cannot save the exception to disk, since the installer seems to lose track of the USB floppy. Thus, trying the 'linux updates' disk did not work either. Here is the output: 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",line1030, 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/todo.py",line 539, in getCompsList 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: qt1x
The USB floppy is not supported in 7.0. The other error is due to something being corrupt in the install tree you created for the hard drive install. Be sure you have all the required files and have downloaded them with a binary safe method. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18019 ***