EDIT-----Problem has been resolved ---- see 1st reply

I'am updating my system from a dual boot
WindowsXP & Fedora 4.

Windows was running poorly (time for a reinstall)
and Core 5 has come out... might as well upgrade.
I'am not a newbie nor a guru. I have searched the forums and not found any thing exactly like this error.

My system:
P4 3ghz Intel 875P + ICH5R chipset
3hdd's 1 IDE 2 SATA
I have tried .Redhat 9, suse 10, mandrake, and fedora 4 all on this box and haven't had any issues. However the IDE drive although not new is the newest drive to the system.

Bios is running sata in enhanced mode and reads:
IDE drive is IDE channel 0 /dev/hda
SATA drives IDE channel 2&3 /dev/sda & sdb

Primary boot drive is SATA drive on channel 2 /dev/sda1

This time around
I installed winXP, had to disconnect ide drive to use sata as windows boot drive (as it was before).. reconnected ide windows boots and works fine.... (I don't remember doing this the last time but it was the only way to get windows to install to sata drive and avoid a "disk error" message upon boot. boot.ini ntldr etc where being copied to IDE drive since its second partition (hda3) was reading as drive C during the windows install)

Next....

Install FC5 (gui and text modes)... everything goes smoothly, select partitions...(tried multiple manual configurations see current partitions in image at end of post)
select packages and on the next step.. actuall install of files. I get an error saying anaconda is closing and even says "this is probablly a bug"... Anaconda dumps me at the command prompt and says "your machine is now safe to reboot" I haven't tried re-installing FC4, I have a hunch it would work and my error is specific to FC5.

I am using the dvd media, even re-downloaded it, both times they check out in media check and checksum.

The anaconda dump file seems to point to an error when establishing/mounting the /tmp partition. But understanding all the contents of this file are a little beyond me.

Here is the end of the dump file

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15:14:01 INFO : moving (1) to step confirminstall
15:15:15 INFO : moving (1) to step install
15:15:15 INFO : moving (1) to step enablefilesystems
15:15:15 INFO : formatting swap as swap
15:15:16 DEBUG : error opening device /tmp/disk: [Errno 6] No such device or address: '/tmp/disk'
15:15:16 INFO : formatting / as ext3
15:15:16 INFO : Format command: ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs', '/tmp/sdb2', '-i', '4096', '-j']

15:15:26 INFO : formatting /boot as ext3
15:15:26 INFO : Format command: ['/usr/sbin/mke2fs', '/tmp/hda1', '-i', '4096', '-j']

15:15:26 INFO : trying to mount sdb2 on /
15:15:26 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/sdb2 on /mnt/sysimage
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount hda1 on /boot
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/hda1 on /mnt/sysimage/boot
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount sda1 on /mnt/c_drive
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/sda1 on /mnt/sysimage/mnt/c_drive
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount sda2 on /mnt/h_drive
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/sda2 on /mnt/sysimage/mnt/h_drive
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount sdb5 on /mnt/i_drive
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/sdb5 on /mnt/sysimage/mnt/i_drive
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount hda3 on /mnt/z_drive
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /tmp/hda3 on /mnt/sysimage/mnt/z_drive
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount proc on /proc
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount proc on /mnt/sysimage/proc
15:15:27 INFO : trying to mount sys on /sys
15:15:27 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount sys on /mnt/sysimage/sys
15:15:27 INFO : moving (1) to step migratefilesystems
15:15:27 INFO : moving (1) to step setuptime
15:15:24 INFO : moving (1) to step preinstallconfig
15:15:36 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /selinux on /mnt/sysimage/selinux
15:15:36 WARNING : no dev package, going to bind mount /dev
15:15:36 DEBUG : isys.py:mount()- going to mount /dev on /mnt/sysimage/dev
15:15:36 INFO : moving (1) to step installpackages
15:15:36 INFO : Preparing to install packages
15:15:36 INFO : switching from CD [1] to 1 for


/tmp/lvmout:
No volume groups found
apable devices
Wiping internal VG cache
Finding all volume groups
No volume groups found
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
cal volumes. This may take a while...


/mnt/sysimage/root/install.log:

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root/install.log is empty 0kb

...Here's an image illustrating my partition setup
As this is my first post I can't directly link to the file. The link will have to be pasted into a browser...

i74.photobucket.com/albums/i272/sannyasi/driveSpace.png

Sorry for the length of this post...
Any help is appreciated

Thanks in advance

Of course as soon as I'm at the end of my rope and post a thread on my issues... the issues work themselves out...

As to the exact reason why the install wasn't working I don't know.. but This last time around I tried two things differently...

1. During the partitioning step I did not assign mount points to my existing partitions. I was just trying to avoid the process of editing my fstab later..

2. Changed the drive order in the advanced boot loader settings to correspond to the bios boot order and not the bios device order. Which installed grub on the the MBR of the windows boot partition /dev/sda (see original post)

I don't know if it was 1 or 2 that fixed the problem but I'm guessing it was 1. the install process never got to the boot loader installation before, it would always die when trying to install the packages.

Now FC5 and XP are installed and booting without issues.