Bug 26723 – installer crashes in setFdDevice routine during normal installation

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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 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2001-02-08 15:58 EST by Robert P. J. Day
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:31 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-02-08 15:58:27 EST
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2001-02-08 15:58:21 EST

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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 16:28:56 EST

  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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