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Saving Traceback Messages Without a
fixes your problem. For more general information on driver diskettes, refer to Chapter 7, Driver
Media for Intel® and AMD Systems.
You can also refer to the Red Hat Hardware Compatibility List, available online at:
http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/
3.2. Saving Traceback Messages Without a Diskette Drive
If you receive a traceback error message during installation, you can usually save it to a
diskette.
If you do not have a diskette drive available in your system, you can scp the error message to a
remote system.
When the traceback dialog appears, the traceback error message is automatically written to a
file named /tmp/anacdump.txt. Once the dialog appears, switch over to a new tty (virtual
console) by pressing the keys Ctrl-Alt-F2 and scp the message written to
/tmp/anacdump.txt to a known working remote system.
3.3. Trouble with Partition Tables
If you receive an error after the Disk Partitioning Setup (Section 15, “Disk Partitioning Setup”)
phase of the installation saying something similar to
The partition table on device hda was unreadable. To create new partitions it must be
initialized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this drive.
you may not have a partition table on that drive or the partition table on the drive may not be
recognizable by the partitioning software used in the installation program.
Users who have used programs such as EZ-BIOS have experienced similar problems, causing
data to be lost (assuming the data was not backed up before the installation began) that could
not be recovered.
No matter what type of installation you are performing, backups of the existing data on your
systems should always be made.
3.4. Using Remaining Space
You have a swap and a / (root) partition created, and you have selected the root partition to use
the remaining space, but it does not fill the hard drive.
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.
3.5. Other Partitioning Problems
If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you
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