Hi! I wish to report this error which i encountered during installing RedHat Linux 7 (Guinness). It happened after while it setup was trying to read the packages from hard disk (after setting passwords). The reported error are as follows: ********** 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 "/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/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: indexhtml Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderList instance at 82ef428> item: indexhtml ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iharddrive HardDriveInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'fstype' p6 S'vfat' p7 sS'isMounted' p8 I1 sS'fnames' p9 (dp10 <failed> ********** I was installing from hard disk. My configuration is as follows: CPU: Intel Pentium 2 350Mhz Mem: 128Mb Hard Disk: Primary Master: 14.2Gb | |-- windows ME (primary partition) - FAT32 | |-- 2 logical drives in extended partition - FAT32 | |-- windows 2000 prof. - NTFS | |-- linux mandrake 7.1 - Linux native + swap Secondary Master: 6.4Gb | |-- Installation files for RH 7 (primary partition) - FAT16 * (max., i.e. 2047Mb) | |-- // This is where RH7 is supposed to be! * Note that I could not create linux partitions on the secondary partition when i had an extended FAT16 partition. I am puzzled by this actually. I have also installed the anaconda update (update-disk-20001009.img) but to no use. The problem persisted. Please let me know if there is a solution to this problem. Thank you. Regards, Kalil
This is caused by a corrupt set of files in the install image on the hard disk. Make sure you have used a binary safe method to download all the required files.