Fails to mount root partition while installing
Do you see a Python traceback error? If so, attaching the error message would help us to identify the problem.
sorry 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: 2048256 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 84bafd8> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: hda5 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
It looks like you didn't choose to format the '/' partition - this is required for the install to work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16686 ***