From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12 Description of problem: The programm terminates abnormally. The installation is not possible. That error occurs right after manually choosing a partition table. I already tried to premake a partition table with another program. Still the outcome was the same. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot from DVD image x86-64 2.Install in safe graphical mode 3.Choose partition table ( either default or manual ) and then installation hangs for a while until error message occurs Actual Results: error message appears: uknown encoding: string-escape Expected Results: The installation should have moved on. Additional info: PC: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2GB G.Skill DDR2-800 - CL5 Geforce 6600GT Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 Exact error message ( pictures ) can be found within above provided url or here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=974480&postcount=9
This should be fixed in Fedora 9 Alpha.
(In reply to comment #1) > This should be fixed in Fedora 9 Alpha. As a matter of fact using the Fedora 9 Alpha solved this issue. No problems at all occurred during the installation. Thank you!