No need to respond to this question.  I suspected the problem was a bad
download of a distribution.  Turns out if you have a failed install, you
need to reformat your partition before attempting a reinstall.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keyser Soze" <keyser-soze11@home.com>
To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 1:13 PM
Subject: RedHat 6.2 install throws exception


> Firstly, I'm a new subscriber and just wanted to say hi.
> Hi.
>
> I tried to install via ftp, using the bootnet-20000407.img, and for some
> reason it just froze or perhaps dropped the connection (cable modem) part
of
> the way through the install process.  I was using ftp.nmt.edu.  The cause
> goes unanswered, but since I had earlier downloaded RedHat 6.2 to a hdd
> partition I decided to boot using the boot-20000407.img which produced the
> following:
>                                 Exception Occurred
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda.real", line 342, in ?
> intf.run(todo, test = test)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1165, in run
> rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 702, in __call__
> if todo.doInstall ():
> File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1140, in doInstall
> db = rpm.opendb(1, self,instPath)
> rpm.error: cannot open
>
> Now, I don't know what all this is saying, but this happens with or
without
> using the
> "boot: linux upgrades" command and associated floppy.
>
> Note about the download:
> I downloaded ftp from the following point .../redhat-6.2/i386/RedHat/ and
> added other files and directories later.
>
> Let me just show a little map of what's on my E: drive.
> ----i386   /* Files in this folder are listed below
>         |
>        doc   /* empty
>         |
>        dosutils  /* just rawrite.exe
>         |       |
>                 ----autoboot     /* complete... 3 files
>         |
>         images    /* just for the boot disks
>         |
>         misc    /* empty
>         |
>         RedHat   /* completely downloaded w/ all subfolders
>
> Files in the /i386 folder are
> .buildlog
> autorun
> boot.cat
> COPYING
> IMAGE.DAT
> IMAGE.IDX
> ls-IR.gz
> README
> RELEASE-NOTES
> RPM-GPG-KEY
>
>
> The reason I've included the map is the concern that I'm missing a file.
>
> Thanks for reading all of this.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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