From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) During initialization of the installer anaconda will crash and as a result of anaconda crashing the entire installation will crash. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Put CD in drive 2.Bootup from CD 3.Pick either text or gui mode (either one will give same result) 4.Waiting for the installer to start Actual Results: Anaconda crashes with error message which causes the installation to exit abnormally and RedHat shuts down. Everything goes fine bootup (from CD) the blue screen comes things happens in the background. It starts to load GUI RedHat logo comes on screen you get a mouse cursor then crash back to black screen where you can read following. Running anaconda - please wait Probing for mouse type... . and on it goes skipping a few lines here with info about setting up X . Using X server /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev can't open /dev/fb0 - Yes it says fb0.. I double checked. Waiting for X server to start. X server started successfully. Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", Line 500, in ? extraModules=extraModules, pcicController=pcicController) File "usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 550, in __init__ self.setFdDevice() File "usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 592, in setFdDevice if not floppyDrive: Return NameError: floppyDrive install exited abnormally sending termination signals..done I made sure during bootup that the kernel found my floppy drive. It finds it fine and tells me my floppy drive is a 1.4M drive Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 I have a ABIT KA7-100 MB the floppy is connected to the MBs floppy controller and is a regular 3.5" 1.4MB floppy drive. The same happens when doing a text installation also (except the printout is staircased on blue background instead of nicely printed out on a black background).
Fix for this is given in the announcement of the fisher beta. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25514 ***
Used the fisher-upddisk.img as suggested in 25514 gives new problem. type in linux updates on the boot prompt it starts up comes to blue screen ask for my updates disk put it into floppy drive hit OK tells me it reads anaconda update continue loading. sees starting anaconda.. and some other things there X starts up RH logo crash back to black background now with a new error message Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 500, in ? extraModules = extraModules, pcicController = pcicController) File "tmp/updates/todo.py", line 561, in __init__ self.setClass(instClass) AttributeError: setClass install exited abnormally and we are getting shut down.
My hardware setup is... ABIT KA7-100 MotherBoard /w Athlon 750, 2x128MB PC133 SDRAM fd0 = standard 1.4MB Floppy hda = 45Gig HD hdb = unused hdc = Mitsubitshi DVD 10x hdd = Iomega 100MB Zip hde = Plexwriter 12/10/32a hdf = unused hdg = unused hdh = unused Video = Diamond Stealh S540 32MB 4x AGP video card NIC = Netgear FA310TX Keyboard = PS/2 Mouse = Logitech wheel mouseman USB /w PS/2 adapter SoundCard = Soundblaster Live 5.1 ExtraCard = TI OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 controller (FireWire)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25514 ***
Quick work around is to unplug iomega zip drive