Bug 25964 - Trying to install Linux7 on a re-formated machine
Summary: Trying to install Linux7 on a re-formated machine
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-04 07:10 UTC by David Fernandez
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-02-06 18:47:45 UTC
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Description David Fernandez 2001-02-04 07:10:48 UTC
Here is a copy of the log I got when trying to install Linux 7.0 on a 
Pentium Class machine:

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 "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems
    raise SystemError, (errno, msg)
SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument')

Local variables in innermost frame:
size: 6538423
fsystem: ext2
self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8292648>
msg: Invalid argument
doFormat: 0
errno: 22
device: hda5
instPath: /mnt/sysimage
mntpoint: /

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-02-06 18:47:41 UTC
You need to format the '/' partition for a reinstall to work properly. Note you
will lose the data on it.


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