Description of Problem:

I have been trying to install redhat 7.1 on my Pentium200 class system for 
many days, and it invariably fails during part of the install.  I now have 
an error message which I am instructed to report to bugzilla.redhat, and 
so I am following directions.  Sometimes the failure occurs as anaconda 
begins to run, sometimes later in the process. Twice it has occured while 
partitioning the swap file, and this is the third occurance where I have 
been instructed to 'save to disk and report.'  I thought maybe I should 
listen this time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
7.1

How Reproducible:
after ~15 tries, have never completed the installation process.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. insert 7.1 CD.  turn on computer. ;)
2. install fails both in and out of text mode, but text seems to proceed 
father, more regularly.
3. 

Actual Results:

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 520, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1126, in run
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages_text.py", 
line 33, in __call__
    todo.getCompsList()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 769, in 
getCompsList
    self.comps = self.method.readComps(self.hdList)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 17, in 
readComps
    return ComponentSet(self.tree + '/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 542, in 
__init__
    self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 409, in 
readCompsFile
    file = urllib.urlopen(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 59, in urlopen
    return _urlopener.open(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 159, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 330, in open_file
    return self.open_local_file(url)
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/urllib.py", line 334, in 
open_local_file
    import mimetypes, mimetools, StringIO
  File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/mimetools.py", line 5, in ?
    import rfc822
EOFError: EOF read where object expected


Expected Results:


Additional Information:
	
I will attach the 'system state' that was printed.