From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Anaconda Installer crashes after completly copying the package files to the HD. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I downloaded the latest .iso's from a RedHat mirror on Monday. I burned the .iso's to CD and booted from CD to start the installation. I used the GUI install interface, Anaconda. It's installing to a separate physical HD, not a partition. On the other HD on my system I have 2 partitions. WinMe and a storage partition. The first time I went through it I selected all of the defaults and my system specifications, let it automatically partition and everything, and after all the packages were done installing I got the error (attached). It tells me to "report the bug" to BugZilla.redhat.com. The second time I did it, I did the same thing except I added a few packages into the installation. It installed all of the packages, asked for the second CD (because I added extra stuff?) and then I got the error. I looked it up and found that the error is similar to bug #21904, bu that bug appears to be for the beta release and this is not. It appears (according to the bug report) that the problem was addressed and corrected internally. System specs selected: Microsoft Intellimouse (ps/2) 105 key keyboard (w/o dead keys) GeForce (256) This is my first time installing RedHat (sorry!) so I'm not sure what's supposed to come *after* the installing of the packages...reboot? boot disk creation? Either way, I'm at a loss. Thanks for your help.
Created attachment 12023 [details] Anaconda Dump.
Brent what was the resolution of this issue?
Um, the 'info' variable was supposed to be 'data'. This was fixed long ago internally. You must have accidentally downloaded the 7.0J product, because I don't think this bug exists in the English version. As for a workaround for you, I would recommend one of three things. 1) Make sure that you are using the English product. (Unless of course you need the Japanese one). Look at the .iso that you downloaded. Is it named 7.0-ja-i386-disc1.iso? If so, you've got the Japanese version. 2) If you are using the English version, or don't want to go though the trouble of downloading again, just skip configuring the video card during the install and then run Xconfigurator after reboot. You can click on the "Skip X Configuration" button to do this. 3) Use the text mode installer by saying 'linux text' at the initial boot screen when booting off the cd. Please let me know if any of these help you. I am marking the bug resolved because it has already been fixed in our internal builds. Thanks for your report.
Aaaah, thanks. <sheepish grin> Yes, I downloaded the Japanese version .iso's instead of the correct ones. I went ahead and installed the Japanese version, just to see what text mode was all about and it was a lot easier than I thought. And it went very smoothly. :) Thanks for your help, I'll read the directions more carefully next time, eh?