From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (Win98; U) Installation fails, here's what I see on the screen: 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.Install from floppy or CD-ROM (created from iso file) Both floppy and CD-ROM install fine on my laptop. 2. 3. Actual Results: Installation fails - see Description above. Expected Results: Installation screen should have appeared This machine has had RH Linux 6.2 and RH Linux 7.0 installed previously without any problems. The machine has an ASUS P3B-F motherboard running Award BIOS 1006 (latest from ASUS). 128MB RAM, 3DFx VooDoo3D AGP board w/ 16MB video RAM. SoundBlaster Live! sound card, and USR 56K Performance Pro Modem (controller-based - not WinModem). Serial Ports 1 & 2 are disabled in BIOS, LPT1 enabled, MS Intellimouse Optical mouse on USB port. Floppy drive is a NEC 1.44MB 3.5" drive. Also have a 100MB internal ZIP drive, Matsushita DVD Drive, and an HP CD9300 Internal CD-ROM burner.
Please use the update image from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher/en/updates/OS/images/fisher-upddsk1.img using the instructions described in the README of that directory or this fisher release announcement. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25514 ***