From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i586) Description of problem: Standard crash, the the user is prompted to send in a bugzilla report using a floppy disk to hold the description How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select partitions too small 2. Select packages 3. After the error message saying that the / partition is too small, a crash follows Actual Results: Nothing - a reboot is needed Expected Results: As is - but without a crash following the error message Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run rc = apply (step[1](), args) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 551, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1925, in doInstall self.fstab.umountFilesystems(self.instPath) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 632, in umountFilesystems isys.umount(mntPoint, removeDir = 0) File "/mnt/redhat/test/qa0408.4/i386/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 134, in umount raise ValueError, "isys.umount() can only umount by mount point" ValueError: isys.umount() can only umount by mount point Local variables in innermost frame: what: /mnt/sysimage/drive_d removeDir: 0 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'resState' p3 S'' sS'progressWindow' p4 (itext ProgressWindow (dp5 S'scale' p6 NsS'screen' p7 (isnack SnackScreen p8 (dp9 S'height' p10 I25 sS'width' p11 I80 sS'helpCb' p12 <failed>
Weird. I can't reproduce this. I made a / partition that was 50MB in size. In disk druid, but after formatting the partition, I got a message saying that I don't have enough disk space to install. Clicking ok then allows me to go back to the package selection screen. What were the sizes of the partitions that you made?
I've got a 8 gig disk with 4 partions: circa 1000 megs fat16 for DOS circa 1000 megs linux native for / circa 70 megs for swap circa 4996 megs for fat32 (windows'98) circa 1 gig unallocated These numbers are from memory. I got around the problem by deleting the linux native and the linux swap partions, re-creating the swap (100 megs) and allowing the linux native partion to use remaining space.
Did you happen to set mount points for the DOS partitions on the times when it failed?
I set mountpoints as follows: /c_drive / (swap) /d_drive or - I don't recall - it was this setup: /drive_c / (swap) /drive_d
I think that might be the source of the problems. There seem to be some problems with setting mount points for DOS partitions during the install. Does the installer work correctly if you don't set mount points fos DOS partitions?
There was no problem with the installer and DOS partitions, if all partitions were big enough (See my 2001-05-27 03:42:06 comment) I haven't tried with a too small partition for the "/" mountpoint and no DOS partition, since I got it to work as described.
I can't explain why deleting the partitions and then recreating them would make a difference, but it seems like you've found a workaround.