On my secondary Maxtor 54098H8 (40GB) drive, I have eight partitions. I set aside a 4GB primary partition (hdb1 I think) for the Linux "/" mount and an ~300MB extended partition (hdb9 I think) for the Linux swap. I requested that the install format and check the "/" partition. When the installation began to format the "/" partition, it failed and gave the following dump below. Something odd was that it took a minite or so before failing. There was a progress bar for the format task, and the hard disk light was showing activity, but the the bar never went past 0%, and it finally failed. 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/text.py", line 551, in __call__ File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1773, in doInstall File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 181, in mergeFullHeaders File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 103, in mountMedia File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/harddrive.py", line 141, in mountDirectory File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 120, in mount rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: fstype: vfat location: /tmp/isodir devName: /tmp/hdb9 readOnly: 1 device: /tmp/hdb9 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 NsS'setupFilesystems' p5 I1 sS'monitorVsync' p6 S'' sS'videoCardStateNode' p7 S'' sS'serial' p8 I0 sS'ddruidReadOnly' p9 I0 sS'bootdisk' p10 I0 sS'videoRamState' p11 S'' sS'monitorOriginalName' p12 S'' sS'language' p13 (itodo Language (dp14 S'langInfoByName' p15 (dp16 S'Arabic (Yemen)' p17 (S'ar_YE' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Argentina)' p18 (S'es_AR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Italian (Italy)' p19 (S'it_IT@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Lebanon)' p20 (S'ar_LB' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Guatemala)' p21 (S'es_GT' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Malay (Malaysia)' p22 (S'ms_MY' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)' p23 (S'ar_LY' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Oman)' p24 (S'ar_OM' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Iraq)' p25 (S'ar_IQ' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Kuwait)' p26 (S'ar_KW' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'English (South Africa)' p27 (S'en_ZA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'French (Switzerland)' p28 (S'fr_CH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Bahrein)' p29 (S'ar_BH' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Croatian' p30 (S'hr_HR' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'French (France)' p31 (S'fr_FR@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Greenlandic (Greenland)' p32 (S'kl_GL' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Korean (Republic of Korea)' p33 (S'ko_KR.euckr' S'iso01' S'lat0-16' tsS'Ukrainian' p34 (S'uk_UA' S'koi8-u' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Mexico)' p35 (S'es_MX' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Greek' p36 (S'el_GR' S'iso07' S'gr.f16' tsS'Spanish (El Salvador)' p37 (S'es_SV' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Peru)' p38 (S'es_PE' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Honduras)' p39 (S'es_HN' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Costa Rica)' p40 (S'es_CR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Denmark)' p41 (S'en_DK' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Dutch (Netherlands)' p42 (S'nl_NL@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Serbian (Yugoslavia)' p43 (S'sr_YU@cyrillic' S'iso05' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Russian (Ukraine)' p44 (S'ru_UA' S'koi8-u' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Portuguese (Portugal)' p45 (S'pt_PT@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Afrikaans (South Africa)' p46 (S'af_ZA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Norwegian' p47 (S'no_NO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Morocco)' p48 (S'ar_MA' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'English (Philippines)' p49 (S'en_PH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Algeria)' p50 (S'ar_DZ' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Indonesian' p51 (S'id_ID' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Danish' p52 (S'da_DK' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Chinese (Taiwan R.O.C.)' p53 (S'zh_TW.euctw' S'iso01' S'lat0-16' tsS'Faroese (Faroe Islands)' p54 (S'fo_FO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Galician (Spain)' p55 (S'gl_ES@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (New Zealand)' p56 (S'en_NZ' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Bolivia)' p57 (S'es_BO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Cornish (Britain)' p58 (S'kw_GB' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (United Arab Emirates)' p59 (S'ar_AE' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'German (Austria)' p60 (S'de_AT@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Romanian' p61 (S'ro_RO' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Paraguay)' p62 (S'es_PY' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Hebrew (Israel)' p63 (S'he_IL' S'iso08' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'English (USA)' p64 (S'en_US' p65 S'iso01' p66 S'lat0-sun16' p67 tsS'Spanish (USA)' p68 (S'es_US' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Portuguese (Brasil)' p69 (S'pt_BR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Equador)' p70 (S'es_EC' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Polish' p71 (S'pl_PL' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Slovak' p72 (S'sk_SK' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Macedonian' p73 (S'mk_MK' S'iso05' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Spain)' p74 (S'es_ES@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Chile)' p75 (S'es_CL' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Syrian Arab Republic)' p76 (S'ar_SY' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Czech' p77 (S'cs_CZ' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Irish' p78 (S'ga_IE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Jordan)' p79 (S'ar_JO' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Italian (Switzerland)' p80 (S'it_CH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Belgium)' p81 (S'de_BE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Albanian' p82 (S'sq_AL' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Finnish' p83 (S'fi_FI@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Swedish (Sweden)' p84 (S'sv_SE' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Singapore)' p85 (S'en_SG' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Dutch (Belgium)' p86 (S'nl_BE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Panama)' p87 (S'es_PA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Venezuela)' p88 (S'es_VE' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Great Britain)' p89 (S'en_GB' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Russian' p90 (S'ru_RU.koi8r' S'koi8-u' S'cyr-sun16' tsS'Norwegian, Nynorsk (Norway)' p91 (S'nn_NO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Zimbabwe)' p92 (S'en_ZW' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Nicaragua)' p93 (S'es_NI' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Luxemburg)' p94 (S'de_LU@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Colombia)' p95 (S'es_CO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Basque (Spain)' p96 (S'eu_ES@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Qatar)' p97 (S'ar_QA' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Arabic (Egypt)' p98 (S'ar_EG' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'French (Belgium)' p99 (S'fr_BE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Ireland)' p100 (S'en_IE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Hungarian' p101 (S'hu_HU' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Tunisia)' p102 (S'ar_TN' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'French (Luxemburg)' p103 (S'fr_LU@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Japanese' p104 (S'ja_JP.eucJP' S'iso01' S'lat0-16' tsS'Swedish (Finland)' p105 (S'sv_FI@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Saudi Arabia)' p106 (S'ar_SA' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Spanish (Dominican Republic)' p107 (S'es_DO' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'French (Canada)' p108 (S'fr_CA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Canada)' p109 (S'en_CA' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Germany)' p110 (S'de_DE@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Slovenian (Slovenia)' p111 (S'sl_SI' S'iso02' S'lat2-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Uruguay)' p112 (S'es_UY' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'German (Switzerland)' p113 (S'de_CH' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Hong Kong)' p114 (S'en_HK' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Australia)' p115 (S'en_AU' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Catalan (Spain)' p116 (S'ca_ES@euro' S'iso15' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Spanish (Puerto Rico)' p117 (S'es_PR' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Turkish' p118 (S'tr_TR' S'iso09' S'lat5-sun16' tsS'Estonian' p119 (S'et_EE' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Arabic (Sudan)' p120 (S'ar_SD' S'iso06' S'LatArCyrHeb-16' tsS'Icelandic' p121 (S'is_IS' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'English (Botswana)' p122 (S'en_BW' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tsS'Manx Gaelic (Britain)' p123 (S'gv_GB' S'iso01' S'lat0-sun16' tssS'allSupportedLangs' p124 (lp125 g46 ag82 ag50 ag29 ag98 ag25 ag79 ag26 ag20 ag23 ag48 ag24 ag97 ag106 ag120 ag76 ag102 ag59 ag17 ag96 ag116 ag53 ag58 ag30 ag77 ag52 ag86 ag42 ag115 ag122 ag109 ag41 ag89 ag114 ag100 ag56 ag49 ag85 ag27 ag64 ag92 ag119 ag54 ag83 ag99 ag108 ag31 ag103 ag28 ag55 ag60 ag81 ag110 ag94 ag113 ag36 ag32 ag63 ag101 ag121 ag51 ag78 ag19 ag80 ag104 ag33 ag73 ag22 ag123 ag47 ag91 ag71 ag69 ag45 ag61 ag90 ag44 ag43 ag72 ag111 ag18 ag57 ag75 ag95 ag40 ag107 ag37 ag70 ag21 ag39 ag35 ag93 ag87 ag62 ag38 ag117 ag74 ag68 ag112 ag88 ag105 ag84 ag118 ag34 asS'info' p126 (dp127 S'SYSFONT' p128 g67 sS'SUPPORTED' p129 S'zh_TW.euctw:zh_TW:zh:en_US:en:es_MX:es' p130 sS'SYSFONTACM' p131 g66 sS'LANG' p132 g65 ssS'supported' p133 (lp134 g53 ag64 ag35 asS'default' p135 g64 sbsS'instClass' p136 (icustom InstallClass (dp137 S'rootPasswordCrypted' p138 I0 sS'raidList' p139 (lsS'nameserver' p140 S'' sS'x' NsS'rootPassword' p141 NsS'makeBootdisk' p142 I0 sS'installType' p143 NsS'postScript' p144 NsS'earlySwapOn' p145 I0 sS'networkDevice' p146 NsS'fstab' p147 (lsS'clearText' p148 NsS'lilo' p149 (S'mbr' p150 I1 S'' tsg13 NsS'name' p151 S'' sS'postInChroot' p152 I0 sS'pixmap' p153 S'' sS'partitions' p154 (lp155 (S'/boot' p156 (I48 I-1 I0 t(S'' I-1 I0 t(I0 I0 tNta(S'/' (I700 I-1 I1 t(S'' I-1 I0 t(I0 I0 tNta(S'swap' p157 (I128 I256 I1 t(S'' I-1 I0 t(I0 I0 tNtasS'clearType' p158 S'wkst' p159 sS'gateway' p160 S'' sS'mouse' p161 NsS'packages' p162 NsS'timezone' p163 NsS'zeroMbr' p164 I0 sS'keyboard' p165 NsS'groups' p166 NsS'bootProto' p167 NsS'netmask' p168 S'' sS'langdefault' p169 NsS'skipSteps' p170 (dsS'auth' p171 (I1 I1 I0 S'' I0 S'' I0 I0 S'' S'' I0 S'' S'' S'' I0 S'' S'' tsS'hostname' p172 NsS'langsupported' p173 NsS'showgroups' p174 NsS'ip' p175 S'' sS'firewall' p176 (I-1 I1 (lp177 S'' I0 I0 I0 I0 I0 I0 tsS'defaultRunlevel' p178 NsS'desktop' p179 S'' sS'clearPartText' p180 S'Automatic partitioning will erase any preexisting Linux installations on your system.' p181 sS'clearParts' p182 I2 sbsS'bdstate' p183 S'' sS'extraModules' p184 (lp185 sS'skipLilo' p186 I0 sS'rootpassword' p187 NsS'fdDevice' p188 S'fd0' p189 sS'installSystem' p190 I1 sS'comps' p191 NsS'verifiedState' p192 (lp193 ((icomps Package p194 (dp195 S'size' p196 I548864 sS'chains' p197 (lp198 (lp199 (icomps Component p200 (dp201 S'includes' p202 (lsg151 S'Everything' p203 sS'hidden' p204 I0 sg135 I0 sS'pkgs' p205 (lp206 g194 a(icomps Package p207 (dp208 g196 I327680 sg197 (lp209 (lp210 (icomps Component p211 (dp212 g202 (lp213 (icomps Component p214 (dp215 g202 (lsg151 S'Printer Support' p216 sg204 I0 sg135 I1 sg205 (lp217 (icomps Package p218 (dp219 g196 I5685248 sg197 (lp220 (lp221 g214 aa(lp222 g200 aasS'selected' p223 I1 sS'h' <failed>
Do you have any FAT partitions that you gave mount points to?
Yes. I gave mount points to an ~20MB FAT partition on hdb, three FAT paritions on hda, and an NTFS partition on hdb. These drives were named /drives/xxx, where "xxx" dependend on the drive. However, I didn't choose to format any of these. -david
Correction, "20GB" partition.
Try doing the install without giving mount points for these FAT partitions. Are these FAT16 or FAT32?
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