Try installing a newer version of RedHat. Why would you want 6.2? On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 06:29, Freddy Jensen wrote: > We are having problems installing RH 6.2 on a new Dell PC. > > It almost looks like the PC hardware is newer than what > is supported by RH 6.2 (email attached below). The h/w > is a Dell Optiplex with plain IDE (no scsi). > > Has anyone seen this before? > > Help and advise will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > -- > Freddy Jensen, Sr. Computer Scientist, Adobe Systems Incorporated > 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA, Ph: (408) 536-2869 > Email: jensen@xxxxxxxxx, URL: http://www.adobe.com > -- > > > ========== Begin forwarded message ========== > > Subject: Installing Linux > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:43:40 -0800 > > I finally tried something that you probably didn't try. > There is a "text" mode that you can choose initially > that uses a older style of interface. When I went through > the installation process with this it eventually reported > "Exception occurred" and showed a traceback. The > deepest levels of this seemed to be: > todo.getCompsList() in file package.py > getCompsList in file todo.py line 467 > I am guessing that "py" indicates a "python" script file > (yet another scripting language). > > It seems that the more GUI approaches were failing without > any indication of this crash. > > I tried some variants, and this error always occured. > > This could indicate a HW incompatibility between "python" > and the CPU of the machine (??). > > ========== End forwarded message ========== -- Michael Smith <msmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Custom87.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
