Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78775
installer fails when trying to do install from hardrive iso image
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:46 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Trying to install Redhat Linux 8.0 on my Sharp PC-UM10 laptop the cdrom drive has a usb connection and booting from cdrom only gives option to install from hard-drive so i copied iso images to hard-drive and then tried to install. the install fails. this worked for redhat 7.3 when i did it a long time ago, and i then upgrading to 8.0 from 7.3 quite a long time ago as well i recently had to return laptop to sharp due to hardware failure so had to wipe linux before returning to them as they told me that they would not look at it if it had linux on it. alternatively if i could do a network install this would be even better however i do not have a floppy drive so i have no way to run netboot.img Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. copy iso images to hard-drive 2. put redhat installation cd1 in cdrom drive 3. set machine to boot from cdrom 4. reboot machine Actual Results: install gets up to choose method, offers only one choice hard-drive, give location of iso-images, proceed Expected Results: redhat linux should be installed Additional info: when trying to do install from hard-drive can't see all of the errors as scrolls off screen and does not allow me to scroll back up but here are the lines that i could see Files "/usr/src/build/148651-i386/install//usr/lib/anaconda/image.py" line 342 in findIsoImages, text.py line 275 in messageWindow, text.py line 115 in __init__ file "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/snack.py" line 547 in ButtonChoiceWindow AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'height' install exited abnormally it then sends termination signals and unmounts filesystems
You can do a network install booting from CD. Type 'linux askmethod' at the boot prompt.
i did type askmethod from the cd but was only presented with the option to install from the hard-drive (ethernet is realtek 8139c) btw i eventually did manage to install by borrowing a usb floppy drive and then doing an install over ftp (using bootnet.img and drvnet.img) btw trying to use the iso images on the hard-drive from the floppy also gave me the same problem as trying from the cd.
Jeremy shouldnt the realtek driver be available on the CD image as well?
The error you're getting from the ISO images looks to be due to a corrupt iso. You should boot with 'linux mediacheck' to verify the images. Also, what driver does the 8139 card you have use?
I think I did linuxmediacheck on the CDs and there wasn't any problem, and I know for certain that I used the iso's on my one machine to burn the CDs that I used for the install, and I copied over these iso's to the laptop when i tried to do the install from hard drive. as to the driver for the Realtek 8139c kie@sharp:~ $ /sbin/lsmod | grep 8139 8139too 17704 1 mii 2156 0 [8139too]
This works for me here on the rtl8139 card I have. Unfortunately, without exact hardware there's not a lot more I can say about this.