Re: 7.0 installation aborts

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

First of all I would try a text install.
> 
> 
> 
> I've been installing Redhats since version 5.0, and I've done it dozen of
> times on many different machines. Now I have a problem with 7.0 whose nature
> I can't figure out. The install hangs after formatting the partitions but
> before installing the packages.
> 
> Basically, I reserve a 3 GB partition for Linux, I start installing
> (text, custom) in the plainest way, asking for ALL packages. After reformatting
> the partition and right before the packages are loaded, anaconda
> comes up with an error
>  Traceback
>   File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
>     intf.run(todo,test=test)
>   File
>   "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda.text.py line 1030, in run
>   ... 
>  and chokes. I've tried it on different computers---laptops and desktops---
> at no avail.
> 
> Now the second part of the story.  I had gotten my first copy of 7.0 as an
> ISO from phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/mirror/redhat-main/redhat/redhat-7.0/i386
> (Brookhaven?) and burned the 5 CD-ROMs. After I got the installation problem
> reported above, I read back the first disk into the computer and diff'd it
> with the downloaded ISO file---it matched bit for bit.  So my copy seemed to
> be good.  Then I did an ftp installation from a mirror, I think
> sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/redhat-7.0, and this worked like a
> charm; it occupied a tad over 2 GB. At this point I downloaded the Sunsite
> ISO and compared it with the Brookhaven versions: they were somewhat
> different even in byte count! I thought, "Aha! Brookahven has the faulty
> version!" So I burned a CD from the Sunsite ISO I tried to install from that.
> I got stuck right away with some horrible problem I forgot the nature of.
> 
> Disgusted, I went out and bought Redhat Linux 7.0 from the store. Out of
> curiosity, I compared disk 1 with my downloads, and it matches
> Brookhaven---the one I thought correupted!  (So Sunsite is the one with the
> wrong ISO). I started installing from the factory-pressed disks (after all,
> my home-burned CD's could have been marginal), and, surprise of surprises, I
> got exactly the same anaconda problem as above. Note this is a straight
> installation made by a rather experienced person from a shrink-wrapped set of
> CD's.
> 
> Finally, I tried again from the Redhat disks, but this time installing only a
> minimum of stuff, and all worked well. My guesses are that either some of the
> packages makes anaconda choke, or for some reason a 2GB installation runs out
> of space and abort ungraciously on already on a 3G partition.
> 
> What should I think? Who should I report this to? Is it possible that this
> problem has not occurred to other hundreds of persons? What should I do?  How
> come this has not happened to practically everybody?
> 
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Aaron Konstam         
Computer Science
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