Re: Anaconda-devel-list Digest, Vol 55, Issue 22

["Manish D" <manish2312 gmail com>]

> Just by looking at the error I can tell you that this is a parted bug.  Mind you, I have not read the whole story (so I could be wrong), but I'll bet you that this is related to 441244, which is fixed for 5.3.
>

[Manish] Thanks for the bug #  Joel. I'd guessed the same. Parted
1.8.8 is out and part of fedora distro now, which works without a
crash.


> If you can't wait until then, you could try
> 1. Partitioning it in Fedora and just using existing partitions.
> 2. If that doesn't work, partition it in Fedora, installing somewhere
> else and cloning manually. Tedious, doesn't scale well, but works (and
> good practice for when you have to install i bigger and/or newer disk).
> 3. Add a new drive and try the simple case with that.
>
[Manish] John I tried,
- With Fedora : FC7 failed, same err. FC9 worked (same err, no crash).
- Using partitioning from other distro (/liveCD) doesn't work, the
error persists.
- Interestingly, Centos installation worked correctly, on another disc
where i replicated the same partition-table.

As I need Centos only with no time to wait, I am trying to spin a
custom dvd - Centos5.2 with latest anaconda/parted. That should work
(hopefully).

Thanks,
-Manish