On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 12:04, P.Agenbag wrote: > Hi List > > I seached the list and it seems I am the only person in the whole wide > world with an install failure on FC2 for AMD64??? ( or maybe I searched > like my but anyway...) > > I proceed to do a "everything" install and have FC2 do a auto partition > on a 120GB SATA disk. All's well at this point, then it formats > partition and copies the install image to disk and then it prepares the > rpm transaction and then , woops, does a post install configuration > without copying anything and gives me a message like follows: > > An unhandled exception has occured ..... > > Traceback > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 1048, in handleRenderCallback > self.currentWindow.renderCallback() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 242, in renderCallback > self.initf.icw.nextClicked() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 763, in nextClicked > self.dispatch.gotoNext() > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 169, in gotoNext > self.moveStep() > bla bla bla > (I have to type this by hand since folks thinks other folks still use > floppy drives...) > > Anyway, I thought it had something to do with my graphics card, so I > tried a text only install, same thing, different errors... > > Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? > > PS all CD media MD5SUMS check out OK > > PPS system = AMD 64 3200, 1GB DDR400 RAM, 120GB SATA DISK NVIDIA FX-5700 > 256MB > > PPPS how difficult would it be to have the option to write to CD during > install, ie, write a boot CD at least? > > PPPPS thanks for the help and hard work on FC!! > Exact motherboard make and model would be helpful also...others are having SATA problems on x86_64 systems also but this doesn't look like that to me...however, I'll bet a dollar to a donut that you have memory issues. Boot CD1 and run memtest86 at the boot prompt...I suggest running it for an extended period. KAS
