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Description of Problem: Boot virtual machine from CD, hit enter on the boot prompt, installer gives a traceback. How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure virtual machine to boot from the CD. 2. Select default install (hit "enter"). Actual Results: Running anaconda - please wait... Probing for video card: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 358, in ? videohw = videocard.VideCardInfo() File "/usr/bin/anaconda/videocard.py", line 288 in __init__ if info: NameError: info install exited abnormally ........... Expected Results: Installer should come up in VGA or text mode if can not recognize video card. Additional Information: exactly the same happends if "text" and/or nofb, expert, etc is typed at the boot prompt. Totally unable to install in vmware.
vmware installation is not guaranteed to work (and is not supported). Will look at the code as your failure may happen for people with undetected hardware as well.
What do you mean "is not guaranteed to work"? Do you realize just how large the number of users that use Red Hat in vmware is? Look at vmware news server! Besides latest XFree now supports vmware display out of the box. I am not saying that installer should start in GUI mode, but TUI should come up just fine, period.
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
I've changed how we fallback to VGA16 some now, please try beta 3 it might help with this issue as well.
Do you have the test image I can try now? Unrelated issue: beta2 boots in text mode but crashes NT vmware verys soon attempting to read from the CDROM. This might very well be vmware and/or kernel CDROM bug and can be workaround by using network install. 7.1 installs fine in any possible combination of media. Would it be possible for you to use vmware in routine development? According to my experience it is well worth it.
Please try the update disk I mentioned on testers-list. We have not supported VMware installs in the past, so the "MUST FIX" status of this bug is unwarrented. VMware is not a hardware platform, it is an emulation layer. This does not meet the requirements we specify for the Red Hat Linux OS.