From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Tauron's) Description of problem: I am using an ABIT SA6R motherboard with two 20GB Maxtor hard drives connected to the onboard Highpoint raid controller. I am trying to install on an existing FAT32 partition. The RAID configuration should be solely constructed through hardware. When conducting a graphical install of type Workstation, Disk Druid reports that drive hde has -19540MB of free space and 200% of the space is used. This is quite incorrect. Next, on the Filesystem Configuration screen, it says that the numbers "must total less than 0MB in size." I put in suitable numbers, but which added up to more than 0MB (obviously). Directly after Linux begins the actual installation, it hangs and gives me the error traceback below, which I could not get in its entirety because it had frozen. When using text only install, I tried the same thing. This time after setting the Filesystem Configuration sizes, the error is "Bad Size: The total size must be more than the amount of free space on the disk, which is 0M." Once again, this is incorrect, and causes me to be unable to continue installation. Other errors I came across were "The new partition table on device hdg is corrupted. To create new partitions it must be initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive." This pops up twice directly after I choose my Installation Option (Workstation). I chose "Skip Drive" both times because I wish to retain the data on my RAID. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run anaconda on a computer set up like my own. (see above) 2.Make the installation workstation, with a partitionless install. 3. Actual Results: When graphical install hanged, it said this Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 19, in run rc=self.todo.doInstall() File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1764, in doInstall self.fstab.makeFilesystems() File "var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 730, in makeFilesystems (self.progressWindow,_("Loopback"), File "mnt/redhat/test/qa0408.4/i386/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda Additional info:
This problem seems to be most similar to bug 27956. What's CVS? Part of rawhide?
CVS is short for Concurrent Versions System, which is a long way to say that it's our source code repository. CVS is commonly used in open-source projects to store source code. When we build our packages for things like Rawhide or the distribution, the source code gets pulled from CVS. So, when msf said that it was fixed in CVS, that means that he's made a patch and applied it to our source code repository, but it probably hasn't been pulled into a package-build for the installer yet. Given that he made the comment in February, and 7.1 was released after that, the fix he created would have been pulled into 7.1. But you're still seeing the problem... The majority of the partitioning code has been replaced for the next version of Red Hat Linux. If you are interested, you can download the public beta for the next version at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/roswell/en/iso/i386
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27956 ***