From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Druid insists on formatting swap partition (already formatted) and stops with a bug. see report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.installation: custom,...choose mount points for existing Linux and fat32 partitions, choos NOT to format the partitions (swap is NOT on the list), hit next 2. message "formatting swap partition" (or some such) is soon followed by 3. An exceptional condition has occurred, This is most likely a bug..... Actual Results: all stops, I have the traceback on the screen Expected Results: swap should have been formatted and linux install (as it happened with 6.0 - I am reinstalling the works) Additional info: Pentium II @500MHz, 512 RAM, 2HD of 16GB each. boot on disk 1 (beginning), / and /usr on disk 2 (beginning), swap (1027mb) on disk 2 (end) all partitions prepared with Partition Magic 7.0 Windows XP nstalled on disk 1 in the partition next after /boot Fat32). several othe data partions on both disks (fat32)
Created attachment 38745 [details] bug report generated by anaconda
After a few hours of testing (sigh) I have come to the conclusion that the problem is neither the formatting of the swap partition, nor druid, but something entirely different. My (nonexhaustive if exhausting) test show that all is well if I DON"T choose to select individual packages. So choosing CUSTOM, picking the global areas (graphics, emacs, games, whatever, for installation of even things I don't want, and not installing some things I do want) without furher selecting will lead to an installation without problems. It is a workaround, if not pleasant. gh
Hmm...selecting or not selecting individual packages shouldn't have any effect on the crash you are seeing. I'm curious what would happen if you just skipped adding a mount point for the DOS partition during ths install. That seems to be where the problem is coming from. Now that you have the install finished, do you want to continue investigating this issue or do you want to leave it alone?
1. I lied, it is not i386 but i686 2. yes i want it investigated, see below 3. the workaround is not perfect. maybe my memory is bad, but I recall having a tool in a previous incarantion whereby I could both install and remove packages. the kpackages I used only adds things. 4. windows xp seems unhappy with LILO in boot sector, so I had to reinstall the works and, as a precaution, I removed LInux as well. so I'll have to reinstall (maybe I'll use BootMagic instead of LILO). It would be good if the thing worked (would linux 7.2 package help?) 5. In none of the tests did I put a mountpoint for the windows XP partition. Detaisl: I have 2 disks, partitioned as follws: A: small boot partition for linux, windows xp programs partition, documenst partition, data partition, misc partition and windows swap partition B: linux root, linux usr, then specific purpose partitions (photo, music, divers, temp) and linux swap. all get mountpoints except the xp nd the windows swap. all non-linux are FAT32. gena
Win XP shouldn't care about having LILO in the boot sector. That shouldn't matter at all. Having said that, I haven't tested dual booting XP and 7.0. I have tested dual booting with XP and 7.2, but 7.2 uses GRUB as the default bootloader instead of LILO. But my guess is that XP shouldn't care about what bootloader is being used. I would expect it to work with LILO, GRUB, BootMagic, or whatever. Do you have the ability to download 7.2 and give it a try?
Agreed, XP should not care. I have no idea what happened. Maybe I'll get 7.2 and try (I'll have to get the CD's, being on a modem connection would make it too long and too expensive as I am at the moment in Prague where one pays for connections). What surprised me is that that anaconda should care whether I do or do not choose individual componets. yet that seems to be the only variable (and I have to admit that since one reason for running linux is the lack of need for reinstalls, I am not exactly willing to tun hours of tests. after all this was to be a quickie afternoon...two weeks ago. as the man said: things always go wrong at the worst possible moment). I'll report later - january - on progress.
There is an Errata available that fixes this problem. It is available at: https://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2000-084.html *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18032 ***