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Description of problem: Exception during Fedora 7 installation from DVD Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Fedora 7 DVD installation I had a PATA hard disk sdc with a primary partition (ntfs) and a secondary extended partition (fat32). I deleted primary partition to leave unpartitioned space in which I tried to install Fedora 7 (selecting 3rd partitioning option: default layout in free space of the selected device). Partitioning failed with the error sequence: 1)Partitioning failed: Could not allocate partitions as primary partitions. 2)The following errors occured with your partitioning, You have not defined a root partition (/), Which is required for installation of ... Then I selected to create a default partition layout removing all partitions on disk sdc. After I accepted confirmation pop-up, I got an exception, please see anacdump.txt file attachment. Expected results: F7 should be able to install on unpartitioned space and No exception
Created attachment 156161 [details] exception dump data
Did you verify your media with the mediacheck functionality?
Yes, I verified the DVD before the first run.
Regardless of media check, you still either have bad media (or a bad download), or there is a kernel driver bug present. The following messages from your traceback indicate that this is not a problem in anaconda: <6>sr 4:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 <6>sr0: Current: sense key: Hardware Error <6> Additional sense: Timeout on logical unit <4>end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 5441248 <3>Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 1360312 <3>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x250c <3>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 9405e2, size 2ccb <3>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x250c <3>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 9405e2, size 2ccb <3>SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block 0x250c <3>SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 9405e2, size 2ccb