Redhar 6.2 on Dell Inspiron 8200

cranebaker · 08-05-2002, 08:48 AM

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?

rverlander · 08-05-2002, 08:04 PM

Try Red Hat 6.0 as 6.0 doesn't use anaconda

slimpy · 09-19-2002, 06:09 AM

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

thanx in advance for replying !

cranebaker · 09-19-2002, 08:21 AM

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.

GT I.N.C · 09-20-2002, 02:52 AM

why you using 6.2, such an ancient distro

cranebaker · 09-20-2002, 07:55 AM

Because it is on a fielded system.

chelocurupa · 06-13-2005, 08:53 AM

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

reddazz · 06-13-2005, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by chelocurupa
you can resolve the problem? ... can you tell me how do you did it?

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.

pbraun9 · 01-19-2021, 11:53 AM

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