From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; AT&T WNS5.0) Description of problem: While performing a partitionless install, installer crashes during the formatting process. I was only allowed to create the dump on floppy and the system restarts. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Partitionless installation. 2.Select packages to install. 3.Proceed up to and part way through format of swap file. Actual Results: Told this might be a bug. Offered to create an anaconda dump to floppy. Additional info: Installtion platform: Celeron CPU, 533Mhz, 128Mb, Win98 OS installed.
Created attachment 25027 [details] anaconda dump
Please include more detailed instructions on the partitioning steps of your install attempt.
I selected an existing FAT32 partition containing Win98 OS for a partitionless installation. This is the only partition on the machine. I selected ~3.0GB from ~6GB remaining on the drive for Red Hat. I used ~32MB for the swap and all the remaining (of the 3GB) for "/". Everything else was just following instruction form anaconda. The dump should show which packages I was installing. Hope this helps. BTW, I decided to use fips to steal away the partition space and installed without a hitch.
I think that the 32MB of swap that the installer defaults to is just not enough swap space. I think that if you had selected enough swap space (roughly 2x your amount of RAM), then things would have worked. With the increased swap needs of the 2.4 kernel, 32MB of swap just wasn't nearly enough for us to set the default at. Partitionless installs just seem to be more error prone than traditional install methods. Thanks for your report.