SNAKES - I hate snakes

[RhythmAce]

I'm running Red Hat 7.1 and use up2date and have the latest updates for that version. I want to upgrade to 7.2 so I spent the best six hours of my life downloading the iso files. I will be using the hard drive install method so I created an install boot disk. The disk boots fine and asks me for the language and file location. When ANACONDA starts, I get a slew of PYTHON and traceback errors . Then the system halts. What I need is for everybody to give up their Thanksgiving weekend and help me with this problem. ) Red Hat support just refers me to Errata, which is already up to date, or Bugzilla which is no help at all. Does anybody know of a way to 'force' anaconda to ingnore errors?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





I remember problems with those snakes trying to upgrade a 6.0 installation - anaconda has had a history of bugs unfortunately. There is an update available from the original 7.2

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-131.html

but the error it fixes relates to 3ware hardware - its probably not relevant.





Anyway, for the hard drive install did you keep the download as an iso file and place it on an existing ext2 or fat partition ? (

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-install-disk-image.html)

Without more info, I can only suggest trying a text-mode upgrade or burning the iso to a CD and trying that.





What python error messages do you get ? Did you check the virtual install consoles (Control-Alt-F1/F2/F3) for info ?





One problem with 7.1 that may persist in 7.2 was dma. You could try passing the parameter 'ide=nodma' when its at the boot: stage - i.e. boot: linux ide=nodma . I'm not sure if you can do that because 7.2 uses the GRUB bootloader by default instead of lilo so passing parameters maybe a bit different. I've haven't tried to go to 7.2 yet myself.





Anyway, hope this helps - if not can u give a bit more error info...





Regards

 

[RhythmAce]

I get a list of errors so I tried to pick them off one at a time. The last one on the list is an AttributeError in /var/lib/anaconda1.5/snack.py. It says that ButtonChoiceWindow is missing 'height' attribute on line 547 so I edited it and put in an arbitrary number to see if anything changes and I got the same error. I also tried using a 7.1 boot.img but it doesn't recognize the iso files and prompts for another location. The iso files are on an ext2 partition on hda5 because I was just going to do an upgrade. It looks like I might have to break down and buy a CD writer after all. By the way, I apologize for posting this in the wrong forum. Lest I incense the purests amongst us, this should have gone in the Linux (server) Forum. Sorry.