From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021011 Description of problem: Attempting to install a virgin (non-upgrade) version of RH 8.0 terminated after attempt to mount to /mnt/source/.discinfo Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Anaconda from CD 2. Create a 4.7GB root partition and 300 MB swap space 3. Select various products to install 4. Anaconda crashes after, apparently, installing a number of products. Actual Results: Anaconda crashed and required a system reboot. Expected Results: A clean installation Additional info:
Created attachment 80084 [details] anaconda dump
After attempting re-installation several times, specifying different partitioning options (including allow the anaconda to define) it always seems to crash when attempting to load the following RPM file: /mnt/sysimage/var/tmp/zlib-1.1.4.4.i386.rpm
An update disk for Red Hat Linux 8.0 is available at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/8.0-cdread.img that should correct this problem. If you download this image and place it on a floppy disk (using dd or rawrite as with a boot disk), and then boot with 'linux updates' from the syslinux prompt, you will be prompted to provide this disk. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75377 ***
Just confirming that the suggested workaround did seem to resolve the problem, i.e., it still stopped the install at the same place but now allowed me to merely reselect the CD to proceed on. Thanks...