Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 29468
Installer crashes with error message
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Installer Crashed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Ran Autoboot.bat on IBM300GL 2.Create two partions using disk druid the first partion is 1540MB the second partition is 64MB all set at the "/". 3.Entered root password and started installation Actual Results: 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: 1580512 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84989e0> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: hda1 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Expected Results: Should have installed I guess?
The dump indicates you did not choose format the '/' partitoin. If this is the case please try the install again, selecting to format this partition.
Please forgive my ignorance but I thought that when I specified how I wanted my partitions setup that the next step would be formatting of the "/". Should I be doing something else prior to using AUTOBOOT? Should I use FIPS to do the formatting. Again, please forgive my ignorance this is the first time I've used LINUX at all. I'm an MCSE (again, please don't hold it against me). I want to see what all this fuss is about with LINUX. If I can get more out of LINUX than I can paying for Microsoft products for our company then LINUX we will use. Again, any help would be appreciated. Tim Thome IT Manager Global Performance
After you partition your system using disk druid, a screen should appear asking you which partitions you want to format. Make sure they are all checked on.
Closing due to inactivity - please reopen if you have anything to add to the bug report.