Machine description: Pentium II 300Mhz, with 128 MB, 2 ( IDE ) hard drives each of 6.3 GB of storage. Initially I had partitioned the first hard drive into several partitions and installed RedHat Linux 5.2 with LILO boot method. I could use both Windows 95 and Linux. I wanted to load the latest glibc library and ran into serious problems and decided to upgrade Redhat Linux itself. I bought a copy of Redhat Linux 7.0 ( Product ID 3873-2fc3-293a-ee39 ). I could not upgrade from 5.2 to 7.0 as the /usr partition was not sufficiently big to load the minimal configuration. Therefore I decide to repartition and the following is the partition table info. I have partitioned the first hard drive ( /dev/hda ) into several partitions Device Start End Blocks Id System Mounted on /dev/hda1 1 261 2096451 6 DOS-16bit>= 32M /dos /dev/hda2 262 782 42009971 5 Extended /dev/had5 262 300 313236 83 Linux Native / /dev/had6 301 504 1638594 83 Linux Native /usr /dev/had7 505 632 1028128 83 Linux Native /usr/local /dev/had8 633 760 1028128 83 Linux Native /home /dev/had9 761 773 104391 82 Linux Swap <swap> /dev/hdb1 1 784 6GB 6 Windows95 format /dos2 Actually I deleted the old unix partitions and rearraged the partitions to accomodate the RedHat Linux 7.0. I am able to go upto the very end of installation using the CD1 and at the end I get the following message to be reported to bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla. Therefore I am submitting this bug report. I am able to start and work using windows 95 as before. Can anyone help me? Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1480, in doInstall if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath, self.hdList.selected()): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in systemMounted self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] + \ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 258, in filesystemSpace space.append((mntpoint, isys.fsSpaceAvailable(topMount + '/' + mntpoint))) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 16, in fsSpaceAvailable return _isys.devSpaceFree(fsystem) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory') Local variables in innermost frame: fsystem: I above statement was one huge line and I have broken into manageable pieces. Thanks Seshari Rengarajan srengarajan /mnt/sysimage//dos ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1480, in doInstall if self.method.systemMounted (self.fstab, self.instPath, self.hdList.selected()): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 46, in systemMounted self.loopbackFile = mntPoint + fstab.filesystemSpace(mntPoint)[0][0] + \ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 258, in filesystemSpace space.append((mntpoint, isys.fsSpaceAvailable(topMount + '/' + mntpoint))) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 16, in fsSpaceAvailable return _isys.devSpaceFree(fsystem) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')Local variables in innermost frame: fsystem: /mnt/sysimage//dos ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
It looks like you had the /dev/hda1 Dos/Windows partition attempting to mount as /dos (/mnt/sysimage is the location anaconda is holding the system data a s it installs), and that the /dos directory was not properly created by the setup. Did you through fdisk or disk druid more than once? Also, had you created that partition manually, and formatted it, or just created it in the partitioner?
Errata update available. See http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2000-084-04.html *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18032 ***
Yes, that is correct. /dev/hda1 ( Dos/Windows ) partition was left untouched while repartitioning the old Redhat5.2 linux partitions. After recreating these linux partitions I did format using fdisk. I created partitions manually and before upgrade or install was done I said yes to format option. Then at the end of installation I got the above messages. Thanks for your efforts. However, I have fixed the problem. I dont know whether that is the genuine solution or not. Here it what I did to install Redhat 7.0. Afte repeated attempts of readjusting partition table to increase /usr and /usr/local file systems ( on /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6 ) I reinstalled Redhat 5.2 with the Redhat 5.2 boot floopy and the respective CD-ROM. The 5.2 installation went through without a glitch. Then I used the Redhat 7.0 boot floopy to upgrade the linux and followed the instructions. I chose the default settings for upgrade and this time as well I did not have any problem. Now I have my Redhat 7.0 running smoothly ( kernel 2.2.16 ). Once again thanks for your efforts. Please consider this bug to be fixed/closed.