C.3. Trouble During The Installation - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX WS 2.1 Installation Manual

Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS

C.3. Trouble During the Installation

C.3.1. Partition Creation Problems
If you are having trouble creating a partition (for example, a root (
setting its partition type to Linux Native.
Unless your BIOS supports otherwise, make sure
If you do not, the installation program will not allow you to create a
new systems allow you to exceed the 1023 limit (with GRUB and the newer LILO versions that are
available), but most machines with older BIOS will not.
C.3.2. Using Remaining Space
You have a and a
swap
remaining space, but it does not fill the hard drive.
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders, you must create a
(root) partition to use all of the remaining space on your hard drive.
C.3.3. Other Partitioning Problems
If you are using Disk Druid to create 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 partition of type Linux native
• /boot
A (root) partition of type Linux native
• /
A swap partition of type Linux swap
•
 
Tip
When defining a partition's type as Linux swap, you do not have to assign it a mount point. Disk
Druid automatically assigns the mount point for you.
C.3.4. Are You Seeing Python Errors?
During some installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS, 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
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
(root) partition created, and you have selected the root partition to use the
/
) partition), make sure you are
/
does not exceed the 1023 cylinder head.
/boot
/boot
/boot
. The error may look similar to:
/tmp
or partition. Some
/
partition if you want the
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