Description of problem: I downloaded the 6 CD distribution and tried to install it and got a python error deep into the 2nd CD. What was installed on the disk was unbootable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 9 - Beta. Identified somewhere in there as Fedora 8.92 and anaconda 11.4.0.55 How reproducible: I tried twice. Once with an optimistic selection of packages, again with all package selections turned off. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download i386 CD set of Fedora Beta 2. Attempt to install, turning all package selections off 3. Switch to disc 2 when asked. 4. Observe error. 5. Attempt to reboot carcase - no go. Actual results: The last few lines of the python error traceback was: UnicodeDecodeError - 'ascii' codec can't decode byte )xc2 in position 19: ordinal not in range(128) Entering deubgger /usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py(160)callback() -> s += (hdr['summary'] or "") -------- Note, the above is hand typed from handwritten copy - may have typos. Expected results: Well, it is Beta.. Additional info: The target machine is an old Gateway laptop (1998-9 or so) with less than 200Mb of RAM and only a CD drive. Some tests say it is an i686 class processor, but I have had i686 distributions not run because of something that looked like a processor incompatibility, thus the i386 selection. This machine has (recently) run FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0 and a past version of Fedora, without too much difficulty. It has a new 80Gb disk.
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