Other Partitioning Problems; Are You Seeing Python Errors - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual

Appendix D. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
phase of the installation saying something similar to
The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be
initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.
you may not have a partition table on that drive or the partition table on the drive may not be
recognizable by the partitioning software used in the installation program.
No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the existing data on your
systems should always be made.

2.3. Other Partitioning Problems

If you are using Disk Druid to edit partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably
have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid's dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
• A (root) partition
/
• A <swap> partition of type swap
Tip
When defining a partition's type as swap, you do not have to assign it a mount
point. Disk Druid automatically assigns the mount point for you.

2.4. Are You Seeing Python Errors?

During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the installation program
(also known as anaconda) may fail with a Python or traceback error. This error may occur after
the selection of individual packages or while trying to save the upgrade log in the
directory. The error may look similar to:
/tmp/
Traceback (innermost last): File
"/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20, in
run rc = self.todo.doInstall () File
"/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1468, in doInstall
self.fstab.savePartitions () File "fstab.py", line 221, in savePartitions
sys.exit(0) SystemExit: 0 Local variables in innermost frame: self:
<fstab.GuiFstab instance at 8446fe0> sys: <module 'sys' (built-in)> ToDo
object: (itodo ToDo p1 (dp2 S'method' p3 (iimage CdromInstallMethod p4 (dp5
S'progressWindow' p6 <failed>
This error occurs in some systems where links to
been changed since creation. These symbolic or changed links are invalid during the installation
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are symbolic to other locations or have
/tmp/