On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 19:40 -0500, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote: > I just tried to install Fedora Core 5 and failed. It just gets into the > graphical installer with a blank window and X plain mouse pointer or > into the text installer and stops. The last message on the third > virtual terminal in both cases is > > no floppy device found but we'll try fd0 anyway > > Anaconda is absolutely correct there is no floppy. > > I tried installing with "linux askmethod" with the isos on my hard > drive. I tried to install of the cds, "linux text" "linux askmethod > text" all with the same results. Looking at the floppy.py from anaconda-11.0.5-1.src.rpm I was able to find the warning I got. It looks like anaconda line 1118 makes the call. The very next thing done seems to make device nodes. I checked and there do seem to be devices in /dev I was only looking for floppy devices so I don't know what else was there. After that I'd need more messages to figure out.
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