Bug 26723 - installer crashes in setFdDevice routine during normal installation
Summary: installer crashes in setFdDevice routine during normal installation
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda   
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Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-08 20:58 UTC by Robert P. J. Day
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-08 20:58:27 UTC
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2001-02-08 20:58:21 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (WinNT; U)


config:  dual 800Mhz pentium III, asus p2b-ds motherboard
... installation messages ...

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
...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  normal graphical install
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Comment 1 Robert P. J. Day 2001-02-08 21:28:56 UTC 
  never mind, apparently it's due to the host having a zip disk, and an updates floppy image corrects the problem.  thanks.
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