From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: Attempting a partitionless install on hdc which has a single FAT32 partition on it. Distribution is from "Red Hat Linux 7 for Dummies". Installer displays the following error after moving on from Disk Druid... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 336, in run self.icw.run () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 678, in run mainloop () File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2554, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 125, in __call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 428, in nextClicked self.setScreen (self.currentScreen, self.nextClicked) File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 466, in setScreen new_screen = screen.getScreen () File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/rootpartition_gui.py", line 133, in getScreen avail = apply(isys.spaceAvailable, self.todo.fstab.getRootDevice()) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 10, in spaceAvailable mount(device, "/mnt/space", fstype = fsystem) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 99, in mount rc = _isys.mount(fstype, device, location, readOnly) SystemError: (22, 'Invalid argument') Local variables in innermost frame: fstype: vfat location: /mnt/space devName: /tmp/hdc1 readOnly: 0 device: /tmp/hdc1 ToDo object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5 S'progressWindow' p6 <failed> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Follow install instructions 2.Add root partition to hdc 3. Actual Results: Dialog box says something like "An error has occurred (probably a bug) please report to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla" There is then the option to save the script to disk Expected Results: Should contunue with installation Additional info:
This is fixed in the update disk available at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.0/en/os/images/i386/update-disk-20001009.img as well as more current releases of Red Hat Linux.