Installer fails at partitioning

[Norberto Quintanar]

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-May/007357.html

hope this helps


--- Christopher Brown <chris@stringbassfish.com> wrote:
> This is a list of hardware I have tried to Install YDL on:
> 
> PowerBook 15" Aluminum 1Ghz (most important)
> iMac (5 flavor) 333MHz
> G4 tower MDD Dual 1.42GHz
> 
> Recently I purchased YDL 3.0.1 Geek Edition cd set. After booting
> from 
> the cd I am sent into text mode after the installer can't use
> graphical 
> mode. Once in the text installer I make it past keyboard selection,
> 
> mouse/no mouse selection, and type of install. Once I reach the 
> partitioning portion of the install, no matter what method i
> use(auto, 
> pdisk, diskdruid) I get this message (I'm retyping this by hand as 
> there is no 'floppy' installed to write this message to):
> 
> beginning or error mesg
> --------------------------------------
> An unhandled exception has occured. This
> is most likely a bug. Please copy the full
> text of this exception or save the crash
> dump to a floppy then file a detailed bug
> report against anaconda at
> http://bugs.terrasoftsolutions.com/
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 	File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 701, in ?
> 		intf.run(id, dispatch, configFileData)
> 	File "/usr/bin/anaconda/text.py", line
> 451, in run
> 		dispatch.gotoNext()
> 	File "usr/bin/anaconda/dispatch.py",
> line 150, in gotoNext
> 		self.moveStep
> 	File "usr/bin/anaconda/dispatch.py",
> line 215, in moveStep
> 		rc = apply(func, self.bindArgs(args))
> 	File "/usr/bin/anaconda/partitioning.py:,
> line 57, in partitionObjectsInitialize
> 		partitions.setFromDisk(disket)
> 	File "/usr/bin/anaconda/partitions.py",
> line 114, in setFromDisc
> 		ptype =
> fsset.fileSystemTypeGet(partedUtils.map_for
> eign_to_fsname(part.mac_native_type))
> 	File "/usr/bin/anaconda/fsset.py", line
> 61, in fileSystemTypeGet
> 		return fileSystemTypes[key]
> KeyError: Apple HFS
> 
> --------------------------------------
> end of error
> 
> 
> Some things to note:
> 1. This is the biggest consideration. All of these machines have 
> Panther installed or were booted from the Panther disc at one time
> or 
> another(iMac was booted but couldn't install due to lack of ram).
> 2. I previously bought YDL 3.0 and the same thing happened with
> those 
> discs as well with any machine with Panther on it. (Previous to
> Panther 
> I was able to boot and install to a 500MHz iBook[Never had Panther
> on 
> it]).
> 3. Panther does not recognize the YDL cd as bootable[system
> preference, 
> startup disc], but it does boot if holding the "c" key down during 
> boot.
> 
> 
> 
> Christopher
> 
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