Eduardo B. Fonseca wrote:
Then, using VMWare, I booted the CD to test. Anaconda loads up fine,
asks me the language desired... then asks me about my monitor,
partitioning, and etc. As soon as it finished formatting my HD, it
groks: "You are trying to install on a machine not supported by Fedora".
Why is this happening? Interestingly, it does not show the screen where
you can select the installation type (Personal, Workstation, Server or
Custom).
I'm bootstrapping the CD on Fedora Core II (standard) with all rpms
installed as noted on the AnacondaDocumentationProject, running on
VMWare. My main development machine (I don't think it's noteworthy) is
running Gentoo Linux 2004.
Again, I've followed the AnacondaDocumentationProject's instructions
closely, so, what could be happening?
Perhaps you are unsupported and they don't want you to be unhappy with
something that will not work. The python code from packages.py is
listed below. It looks like you need to have a stand alone machine
without VMWare. For example, look at this bug
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112555. Anaconda
works fine without VMWare installed when trying to reproduce the error.
Greg
# this is a crappy hack, but I don't want bug reports from these people
if (iutil.getArch() == "i386") and (not
grpset.hdrlist.has_key("kernel")):
intf.messageWindow(_("Error"),
_("You are trying to install on a machine "
"which isn't supported by this release of "
"%s.") %(productName,),
type="custom", custom_icon="error",
custom_buttons=[_("_Exit")])
sys.exit(0)
id.grpset = grpset
