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Chapter 6. Troubleshooting Installation on an Intel® or AMD System
probably have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid's dependencies to be
satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
• A / (root) partition
• A partition of type swap
Tip
When defining a partition's type as swap, do not assign it a mount point. Disk
Druid automatically assigns the mount point for you.
3.6. Other Partitioning Problems for Itanium System Users
If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you
probably have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid's dependencies to be
satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
• A /boot/efi/ partition of type VFAT
• A / (root) partition
• A partition of type swap
Tip
When defining a partition's type as swap, you do not have to assign it a mount
point. Disk Druid automatically assigns the mount point for you.
3.7. Are You Seeing Python Errors
During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the installation program
(also known as anaconda) may fail with a Python or traceback error. This error may occur after
the selection of individual packages or while trying to save the upgrade log in the
/tmp/directory. The error may look similar to:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py", line 20,
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