Bug 57842
| Summary: | The installer crashes when installing the packages | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <taurentius> | ||||
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2001-12-30 22:22:25 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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I get the exact same crashdump. It dies at emacs install. I have wasted the entire weekend attempting to get 7.2 to install by trying every trick in the book. If you try to outsmart this by not installing emacs, it will go to the next package and crash from there. Why is there not a recovery method instead of letting you get an hour into the install and crashing the whole thing? Also, I for one am tired of this community bashing Microsoft. At least they are smart enough to know that you can't sell a product that won't install. I installed both win98se and XP pro on this machine and the installs work flawlessly. I work for a large internet company that uses unix/linux based products. These machines need the daemons restarted as much as an NT4.0 box needs rebooting. So what is the cure for this crashing? Return it to the store and buy Win2000 Advanced? Part of the mystery is solved. It appears that you can't use Disk Druid or Fdisk to partition, you have to let it partition automatically. The draw back to this is then it creates partitions for /, usr, var, etcetera, and uses all the hard disk space.(Another bug that goes along with the disk druid and fdisk problem is that it refuses to create a swap partition also.) It is also evident that this problem is related to changing from disk one two disk two to finish the install. It is exactly at the emacs install point that it asks for the second disk if partitioning automatically, or crashes before asking for disk 2 when partitioning by other means. Although I was able to get the install to finally work, it is unable to configure my ATI Rage 128 video card. It probes it, sees it, but then just chokes. Running Xconfigurator from the commmand line chokes also irregardless of how you configure it. This is pathetic. I now have a high powered command line box that is no different than the old 486 running slackware other than it partitioned the tar out of my 15 gig drive. This looks to be a bad CD. If these are CDs you burned from ISOs downloaded offthe internet, please verify the MD5sum of the isos versus those published on ourwebsite. If this is a purchased copy of Red Hat Linux, please contact support. bug fixed now; started over for a third time and installed correctly now These are commercial cd's and not downloaded. This has shown up in at least 3 other bug reports I have seen and you close this ticket? |
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