Description of problem: When attempting to upgrade 7.3 -> 8.0 install fails after boot loader question but before finding packages to upgrade under these conditions: Floppy boot Hard disk install (therefore text mode) ISO images are at the top of partition directory tree, but partition is not root partition of installation being upgraded. If the ISO images are not at the top of the tree, or are in / of installation being upgraded, the problem does not occur. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attempt upgrade with ISO images at top of non-/ partition tree 2.Select HD install, upgrade, and give image and installation locations 3.Accept other defaults Actual Results: Crash (traceback attached) after boot loader question but before looking for packages to upgrade Expected Results: continue with package selection Additional info:
Created attachment 78524 [details] traceback
Did you have the docs CD in the same directory?
Yes, I did. When I moved it the problem went away. Not sure why this made a difference, but it did.
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Okay, workaround for now is to move the documentation CD to a different directory. The reason why this happens now is that we've made the disc identification scheme the same for all of the CDs included in Red Hat Linux and so the documentation CD looks like it could be a disc 1.
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And I've put a fix for this in CVS now
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Created attachment 89403 [details] Traceback of the Unhandled Exception when installing from CD or FTP.
Comment on attachment 89403 [details] Traceback of the Unhandled Exception when installing from CD or FTP. I'm trying to upgrade from 6.2 to 8.0, using CDs or FTP. Any workarounds other than the one mentioned earlier??
I had this same problem, but didn't find any solution for it... So I searched it myself (even I don't know anything about python). Anaconda uses 'oldhd' type installation, when not using .iso images. There is few typos on anacondas harddrive.py ... Line 82 is: hl = HeaderListFromFile(self.tree + "/RedHat/base/hdlist") And it SHOULD be: hl = HeaderListFromFile(self.tree + self.path + "/RedHat/base/hdlist") Also same problem in line 88 (file: hdlist2) ... Maybe even somewhere else, but when I fixed that. Updated .pyc file in 'runtime image' .. Worked just fine for me. Now everybody knows how to FIX this, I hope :)
*** Bug 80130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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I'm going through Bugzilla closing some bugs that have been marked as Modified for some period of time. I believe that most of these issues have been fixed, so I'm resolving these bugs as Rawhide. If the bug you are seeing still exists, please reopen this report and mark it as Reopened.