Description of Problem: Was in the last step of new installation of Red Hat Linux/Intel 7.0 (Guinness) Installation program was going to write to hard disk in the end when it crashed. I have a Win98/pentium already installed. Linux swap partion in primary partion Linux in extened partion How Reproducible: Every in the last step of installation the error occurs. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Come to the last stage of installation when final write to hard disk is about to take place 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information: The install progam suggested dumping info to floppy before crash. Info given below BEGIN DUMP Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1472, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "fstab.py", line 715, in mountFilesystems raise SystemError, (errno, msg) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: size: 5309451 fsystem: ext2 self: <fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8202858> msg: Invalid argument doFormat: 0 errno: 22 device: hda7 instPath: /mnt/sysimage mntpoint: / ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> END DUMP
Created attachment 26995 [details] dump file saved to disk bye install program before crash
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