From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 i586) Description of problem: Anaconda detected a fatal error after I backed up from just before "formatting partitions", all the way back to edit the mount points, then tried to go forward again. I saved the error info onto a floppy, then gave a hardware Reset, and started over from the beginning. New install of RH7.0 on i386, using the back 12G of a 20G disk. Front 8G (BIOS limitations) has 80M Linux native 83 (planning ahead for /boot), 1G FAT for Win95, 7G Extended containing 2G FAT32, 4.5G FAT32, 0.5G free. I used fdisk from tomsrtbt 1.7.185 to turn the Extended (type 5; 8GB limit) into an Extended (type F; Win95 LBA entire rest of disk). [Delete all logical parititions, delete Extended type 5, create new Extended, change to type F, re-create (in place) two FAT32 type B. Win95 was still happy (Phew!)] Then I booted from RH7.0 floppy (BIOS cannot boot CD-ROM, either), Manual Partitioning, asked for 2G root, 5G /home, 400M swap, leaving 3.5G free. Note that I forgot to mount /boot on hda1. The machine has only 32M of RAM, so partition table had to be written "early". I got all the way to Formatting Partitions, then realized that I needed to mount /boot. So I went Back many screens (text install), mounted /boot on hda1, then tried to go forward. Anaconda detected a fatal error, and would not proceed. I thought I was going to get a graphical install (Enter at first input screen). The questions about language, keyboard, and mouse were all in the text install format. I choose Manual Partitioning as soon as I could. Maybe that switched me into text install. (No real problem; I'm just somewhat confused as to how I got into text install when I thought I asked for graphical.) How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. See Desription for what I did. 2. 3. Actual Results: Contents of floppy written by Anaconda: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/partitioning_text.py", line 224, in __call__ todo.fstab.savePartitions () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 220, in savePartitions sys.exit(0) NameError: sys Local variables in innermost frame: self: <fstab.NewtFstab instance at 820a388> ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Expected Results: Ability to proceed forward, and complete the installation, despite having to back up from "formatting partitions", to the screen for editing mount points. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18251 ***