From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; LDS Church) Description of problem: I've tried installing RedHat 7.3 and 8.0 beta but I get errors in anaconda that cause the installer to die every time I try. I will list the results for 7.3 below Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Put in RH 7.3 cd in Compaq Armada E500 laptop 2.Start install and let anaconda run 3. Actual Results: It crashes with an error. Expected Results: It should have run anaconda and continued with install. Additional info: Ok. This is supposed to be an install on a brand new fresh hard drive with nothing on it. Here is what happens when anaconda runs. Running anaconda - please wait... Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/lib/anaconfa", line 67, in ? import dispatch File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 19 in ? from packages import readPackages, checkDependenceies, doInstall File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 25, in ? import fsset File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fsset.py", line 355, in ? fileSystemTypeRegister(reiserfsFileSystem()) File "/usr/lib/anaconfa/fsset.py", line 316 in __init__ seld.partedFileSystemType = parted.file_system_type_get("reiserfs") parted.error: unknown file system type install exited abnormally -- received signal 11 (and proceeds to shut down) This is similar to bug 64846 except that I can't press ctrl + alt + F2 from the welcome screen. It doesn't work. Neither do the commands that the guy said to try. Ctrl + alt + F3 has no strange errors, but f4 says at one point <4>Unable to identigy CD_ROM format. <4>VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev loop(7,0) then later <4>hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error} <4>hdb: command error: error=0x54 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 1122936 it has to errors similar to this and then <4>Error -3 while decompressing! <4>c02a4568(1600)->ca65f000(4096) And a few more of those. Any suggestions?
These errors tend to imply bad media. If you boot with 'linux mediacheck', does your media pass?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75008 ***