After a dozen tries I have not successfully completed the intallation process. I have a Pentium 233 MMX with 60 MB of RAM and a 4.3 GB HDD. I have tried the install without (3 times) and with (9 times ) a DOS partition on the system. I have tried installing the Workstation, Server, and Custom versions. The install process collects all the necessary information and goes through the Disk Druid process. I have had the system either hang or reboot during the partition format process or when it was copying packages. It hasn't stopped in the same place twice. On one attempt I did receive the following message: 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 1472, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 713, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 514048 fsystem: ext2
When I came back and checked the bug report I did not see the second half of my report. I did query bugzilla and found bug number 18549 with an almost identical message. It said that swap space wasn't large enough. I increased my swap space to 700 MB and tried again. The system rebooted itself while copying the 4th package.
It is a day later and I continued to experiment. I removed the DOS FAT32 partition and replaced it with a FAT16 partition. No improvement. The install hung during the format of the /var partition. BTW, I am using the CDs that came with the book "Red Hat Linux 7 Weekend Crash Course" by Naba BArkakati I thought that since I was having problems with the installer that I would download the fixes for the anaconda problems (20001009) I tried using the update by entering "Linux Updates" at the boot prompt and got the following message and the system halted. Running anaconda may take sometime to load Trace back (inner most last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda," line 206 in ? from todo import ToDo File "/tmp/updates/todo.py.", line 143 if not self.isConfigured: ^ Syntax Error: invalid syntax Install exited abnormally Sending termination signals...done Sending kill signals...done disabling swap... Unmounting filesystems... /mnt/runtime /mnt/source unmount failed (16) /dev/pts /proc you may safely reboot your system That's all for now
Sounds like bug 16686 as well. We've been trying to reproduce this issue and fix it. Thanks for your bug report. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***