Hello, I was trying to custom install Red Hat 7.0 professional with two partitions on a 30 Gig hard drive: /boot (19 Megs) / (the rest of the HD). The install process fails with an error message (below). Okay, the partitions are not exactly standard, but I didn't see anything in the documentation barring large partitions. Also, I wanted to avoid running out of disk space on any one partition when other partitions have space available. The work around was to install a server solution and allow it to automatically partition the disk. Then, I went back and redid a custom solution, accepting the partitions that were created in the first install. Dumb, I know, but it worked. I hope that I don't run out of disk space on some of the partitions. Here's the bug report that was produced: 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: 26483121 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84bae20> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: hda6 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
It looks like from the dump you chose not to format the '/' partition. This will definately cause problems, and something we've added checks for in newer versions of the installer. Does this sound like what happened?
I don't believe so, but, then again, it was a bit late! I'm pretty sure I elected to format all partitions.
If you could try again I would appreciate it. The doFormat = 0 in the dump means it was not going to try and format the partition.
I appreciate you trying to solve this, but I already have invested a bit of time setting up my Linux box. Like I said in my original report, I was able to work around the problem. Unless you can tell me how to do a re-install, but not overwrite my existing set-up, I can't help you. Thanks anyways, P.
Ok please open a new report if you have any future problems.