From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) Two problems: a) HD Install asks for iso images. Shouldn't this be RPMS directory? b) HD install makes anaconda dump. URL above gives anaconda dump output. THis occurs right after selecting KDC/password/etc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mirror redhat to <hdc7>/os/redhat-7.1 2. make boot floopy 3. boot off floppy, install from <hdc7>/os/redhat-7.1 Actual Results: anaconda crashed Expected Results: should ask for packages next I think. first part of traceback: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", line 32 , in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 762, in getHeader List File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 165, in read Headers File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 105, in moun tMedia KeyError: 1
There were numerous problems with hard drive installs with Red Hat 7, most of which were from people whose download of the installation tree got corrupted somehow. So, we changed hard drive installs to use iso images instead. This way, if there are problems, the user can do an md5sum on the iso image(s) and compare the result to the md5sum posted on the ftp site to be sure that the download finished without error. This change has been clearly documented in the release notes for 7.1. If you are trying to download the install tree instead of the iso images, this will not work. Just put the two isos on your hard drive somewhere, boot off the boot.img floppy, and pick the partition the that isos are stored on. Having said all this, the installer should be able to fail gracefully instead of crashing. We will address this in a future release.