Installing RH 7 on Alpha Server 400. Downloaded RH from FTP site Bootmethod : SRM->floppy:aboot->floppy:generic.img->floppy:ramdisk.img->CD When the installer goes into "Selecting Packages" it blows up. I think it might have to do with the fact that in the folder /instimage/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages there are 2 files : gtk.py and GTK.py When burning a CD from a Windows environment, one of the files gets overwritten.. Saved debug info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", line 33, in __call__ todo.getCompsList() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 539, in getCompsList self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 16, in readComps return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 459, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages, arch, matchAllLang) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 428, in readCompsFile comp.addPackage(packages[l]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 101, in __getitem__ return self.packages[item] KeyError: MAKEDEV Local variables in innermost frame: self: <comps.HeaderListFromFile instance at 120460e90> item: MAKEDEV ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
Created attachment 7871 [details] The installer allows you to save the error, this is it.
Looks like you are getting read errors from your CDs - did you burn these yourself?
Yes I did. I noticed that in certain directories files exist that are in upper case and lower case. Since I am using Windows to burn the CD, this gets screwed up. IIRC, the file was gtk.py and GTK.py. These are in usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages. Does this mean that I can not use windows to burn a linux CD ? Thanks, Rob.
If you grab the ISO images using a binary transfer method, I think some windows CD burning software can burn using an ISO image. I don't know the details (I always use Linux).