Bug 88153 - Installer only says hardware not supported at very end of install
Summary: Installer only says hardware not supported at very end of install
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-07 03:16 UTC by Edward Kuns
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-04-07 18:31:50 UTC

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Description Edward Kuns 2003-04-07 03:16:51 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Red Hat 9, when installing on a 486 box (which may have a 586 overdrive in it),
appears to be fine at first.  All menus work, partitioning, package selection,
etc.  The install image is copied to to the drive.

It gets very far through the install especially if one customizes package selection.

And THEN, only at that point, says the hardware is not supported.

It should check for compatible hardware MUCH earlier in the install!

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Try to install on a 486

Actual Results:  See Description

Expected Results:  Much earlier complaint on non-supported hardware
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-04-07 18:31:50 UTC 
Unfortunately, we can't know until we've read the header list to see what
packages are available if something is supported or not.  And this has to be
delayed until we can enable swap for machines with low amounts of memory.
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