Redhar 6.2 on Dell Inspiron 8200
 

During installation, I get the following error msgs when loading Redhat 6.2 onto the Dell 8200. It occurs just before I am getting ready to select the packages for installation (when the installation is reading the package information). A
"Exception Occurred" window comes up that says:

Traceback (innermost last):
File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 342, in ? Intf.ru n(todo, test=test)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py") Line 1165, in run Rc = apply(step[1](),
step[2])
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/textw/packages.py", Line 11, in __call__
todo.getCompsList()
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 467 In getCompsList Self.comps =
Self.method.readComps(self.hdList)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/image.py",Line 8, in readComps
Return ComponentSet (self.tree +'/RedHat/base/comps', hdlist)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py",Line 326, in __init__
Self.readCompsFile(file, Self.packages)
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", line 299, in readCompsFile
Comp.addPackage(packages[l])
File "/usr/lib/anaconda/comps.py", Line 46, in __getitem__ Return
self.packages[item]
KeyError: basesystem

Can anybody help?

Try Red Hat 6.0 as 6.0 doesn't use anaconda

I am experiencing the same problem
 

I am experiencing the same problem. did you manage to find a solution to install 6.2 ???

thanx in advance for replying !

No. I haven't found a solution. I would appreciate any information that you can come up with. Meanwhile, I'm still looking for a solution. Thank you.

why you using 6.2, such an ancient distro :p

Because it is on a fielded system.

error instalation Linux 6.2
 

you can resolve the problem? ... can you tell me how do you did it?

Re: error instalation Linux 6.2
 

There is nothing called Linux 6.2, when referring to Linux distributions always include their names and then version numbers. Anyway I assue you meant Redhat 6.2. Redhat 9 and below were discontinued by Redhat, and replaced by Fedora Core and Redhat Enterprise Linux.

After many, many years...

I've been playing with a retro software proof of concept (installing Oracle 8i on RH62). The issue was pretty common at the time, since anaconda was a very new thing (see resources in the linked guide below).

Solution was either to `s/i786/i?86/g` from `RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc` on the install media --or-- to do that against the stage 2 installer image from `RedHat/base/hdstg2.img`. Fortunately, ramdisks and installer images were still ext2 at the time, so you could simply mount and edit it as such.

Setting up Redhat Linux 6.2 (zoot)
https://pub.nethence.com/obsolete/redhat62

Setting up Oracle 8i
https://pub.nethence.com/obsolete/oracle8i