Red Hat 8.0 installation failure

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, J. Allen Crider wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions on what I need to do to install or upgrade
> to Red Hat 8.0.  I am using CD-Rs burned from downloaded images.  The
> failure occurs fairly quickly after attempting to start Anaconda, in
> either graphics or text mode.
> The message (assuming I copied this down correctly) is
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>      File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 639, in ?
>          iutil.makeDriveDeviceNodes ()
>      File "/usr/bin/anaconda/iutil.py", line 420, in makeDriveDeviceNodes
>          isys.makeDevInode (drive, "dev/%s" % (drive, ))
>      File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 265, in makeDevInode
>          _isys.mkdevinode (name, fn)
> SystemError: (2; 'No such file or directory')
>
> I am currently running Red Hat 7.3 on this system.  The only thing that
> I consider unusual about my hardware is a Promise IDE controller with a
> hard drive as /dev/hde and a CD-RW drive as /dev/hdg.  I installed these
> after installing Red Hat 7.3 and I had to compile a custom kernel from
> the Red Hat sources in order to get these drives to work properly after
> installation, but everything else worked out of the box.

This sounds like the problem to me.  I think you have a few immeditae
options.  First, pay for RH8, and then you can get tech support from
Redhat.  Barring that, remove gthe Promise card, and you should be able to
perform the install.  You could also search on Redhat's Bugzilla archives,
to see if this is aknown problem, and search groups.google.com.

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