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Appendix D. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Linux

If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders, you must create a

/boot

partition if you want the

/

(root) partition to use all of the remaining space on your hard drive.

D.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

/boot

partition of type Linux native

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.

D.3.4. Are You Seeing Python Errors?

During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat 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

/tmp

. The error may look similar to:

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