From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0) Both upgrade and regular install (workstation) do this when using FTP install. This is the dump from the isntall: 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 33, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 769, in getCompsList File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/urlinstall.py", line 27, in readComps File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 542, in __init__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 423, in readCompsFile TypeError: comp file version 3 or 4 expected Local variables in innermost frame: filename: ftp://192.168.0.2/./RedHat/base/comps Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start FTP install with boot disk 2.get to the point of manually partioning or letting install partiotion 3.Wait for failure Actual Results: failure Expected Results: 7.1 install Duron 800 FIC AZ11 MB 196 PC100 RAM Two NICS (3c59x, tulip (<--LNE100 Linksys) Intio SCSI controller INI91xx/uw 3DFX Banshee Connected to the FTP host via a Netgear FE108. FTP host is Win2000, patched. Notes during failure were to report this.
I can still boot the old 7.0 install onthe same machine, so partition tables are not touched nor are disks formatted.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18469 ***
I would try to redownload and burn a new cd. I think that your install image is corrupt.