Install of FC6T1 via DVD failed with exception - false alarm

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Thu Jun 22 01:25:10 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 19:29 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
> I just downloaded the FC6T1 DVD, checked the sha1sum, burned it, tested
> the media and started a fresh install to a 10GB partition which I told
> anaconda to format ext3.  Everything went fine until the actual install.
> After a short time, I got a message something like
> 
> "Error transferring install image to hard drive.  You are probably out
> of disk space."
> 
> DVD reading continued, and then I got a window that said
> 
> "An unhandled exception has occurred.  This is most likely a bug.
> Please save a copy of the detailed exception and file a bug report
> against anaconda at your distribution provided bug reporting tool."
> 
> I saved the details to a floppy and it then rebooted.
> 
> I booted into FC5 to see if there were any posts like this yet - none
> found.  I tried to read the anaconda dump .txt file on the floppy, and
> it is unreadable.
> 
> I'll now report the bug.
> 
I tried a second time, this time the only change was not doing detailed
package selection.  Install finished fine.  Will add info to bug report
and change it to NotABug.

Gerry





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