From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The following message pops up with the suggestion to save it to disket, but the program no longer responds, and all I could do was to restart the computer. Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/prgress_gui.py, line 20, in run rc = self.todo.dolnstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1469, in dolnstall self.fstab.makeFilesystems () File "fstab.py", line 645, in makeFilesystems (self.progressWindow,_("Loopback"), File "isys.py", line 78, in ddfile os.write(fd, buf) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Pentium with Windows ME installed on it. I start to install RedHat Linux in FAT32 partion. 2. Get the warning that I can do it, but the disk access will be slower. 3. Get the above message. Actual Results: Computer did not respond any more. I had to reboot it. Fortunately, Windows ME was still there. Expected Results: I expected to have both Linux and Windows ME on one computer. Additional info: Traceback (innermost last): File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/prgress_gui.py, line 20, in run rc = self.todo.dolnstall () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1469, in dolnstall self.fstab.makeFilesystems () File "fstab.py", line 645, in makeFilesystems (self.progressWindow,_("Loopback"), File "isys.py", line 78, in ddfile os.write(fd, buf)
hmmm ... how big did you specify your root filesystem to be ...? Did you specify it to be bigger than the size used by the packages you selected for install ...? This looks just like bug #19577
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