From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Description of problem: When trying to install Red Hat 9 on HP Proliant DL360G3 hardware, installation crashes every time after creating paritions and formatting them. It does not seem to make any difference if tried to do custom or server install, and used different parition sizes. Following error message is displayed on the screen: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 739, in ? intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 459, in run dispatch.gotoNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 157, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 225, in moveStep rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args)) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/packages.py", line 583, in doPreInstall method.mergeFullHeaders(id.hdList) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py", line 50, in mergeFullHeaders hdlist.mergeFullHeaders(self.tree + "/RedHat/base/hdlist2") File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 180, in mergeFullHeaders rpm.mergeHeaderListFromFD(self.hdlist, fd, 1000004) IndexError: list index out of range Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start installation from bootable redhat 9 cd 2. create partitions and select packages 3. after creating partitions, the error is displayed Additional info:
Have you tested the CD media?
Tried two different cd's and same problem. Also tried to install from these cd's to another pc and works fine.
This would indicate the problem is an interaction between the drive in the HP machines and the CD media causing read errors. You may want to get a replacement set of media, or try swapping a different CD drive into the HP box.