Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 38539
7.1 installer chokes on RPMs from RedHat 6.2
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-1t i686) This report is related to Bug # 38537. As the normal RedHat 6.2 installation process is no longer usable with the newer RPMs from ftp.redhat.com, I tried to use the much improved installer from RH 7.1 to install the 6.2 RPMs. I prepared a tree with the following structure: -- RedHat ----+------ RPMS - all RPMs from the 6.2 CD + all upgrade from | ftp.redhat.com +------ base - .img Files from the seawolf CD #1, hdlist file created from the RPMs above with genhdlist comps file from the RedHat 6.2 base directory All this is accessible over FTP as I wanted to use this for a network install. The install worked really fine, up to software selection, I selected all wanted packages, the installer started to format the file systems and then crashed with a python backtrace. I've written the anacdump.txt file and will attach it to this bug report Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create an RedHat install tree as described above. 2. create a bootnet.img floppy from the RH 7.1 CD 3. boot, install from network as described. Actual Results: Crashed with an internal python error. Expected Results: Should install, the newer installer should cope with older RPMs
Created attachment 16966 [details] anacdump from the crash as described above.
Ok, I was able to resolve this by using the genhdlist tool from the anaconda-7.1 package. This now works fine; two quirks stay: you need the lilo from 7.1 (for /boot/message) and the e2progs from 7.1 or you won't be able to mount your filesystems because 1.18 from 6.2 doesn't grok labels. Maybe make two upgrade packages for this?