Bug 91216 - anaconda falls over when installing RH 9 on a box with no floppy drive
Summary: anaconda falls over when installing RH 9 on a box with no floppy drive
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Fulbright
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-20 01:34 UTC by Dan Horth
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-05-22 16:52:00 UTC
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Description Dan Horth 2003-05-20 01:34:48 UTC
Description of problem:

when installing RH 9 on a box with no floppy drive (and floppy disabled in BIOS)
anaconda crashes when we get to the "Make boot disk" part of the install.

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Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2003-05-20 16:07:00 UTC
Could you please attach the crash output?  I regularly test on a box which is
legacy-free and has no floppy controller and have not experienced any problems
so having the output would be handy.

Comment 2 Dan Horth 2003-05-20 23:58:07 UTC
I did want to attach crash output - but since I had no floppy I had nowhere to
save it to! I couldn't find a way to dump it to disk either - would have been
handy being able to choose a path to save it to.

I have to reinstall the same box today anyway - so assuming I get the same crash
I'll copy down the report by hand and forward it on to you.

Comment 3 Dan Horth 2003-05-22 16:52:00 UTC
have not been able to reinstall, and hence replicate this crash - my media is
randomly (mostly) coming up as faulty when checksummed at the start of the
install process - fairly unpredictable - suspect media issues causing failed
installs and crashes. will test further later when more time. thanks!


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