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Hi everyone,

I am trying to install Fedora Core release 1 on a computer that I will describe in a minute. The installation goes all right until I finish the Network Configuration screen. After entering the IP addresses and name of the computer, I press next and the install program displays an error dialog which says: "An error occurred when attempting to load an installer interface component. className = FirewallWindow".

I used the same CDs to install Fedora on a different computer two days ago and the installation went fine.

The machine I'm trying to install Fedora on is an MCA computer with
Intel 450 MHz Pentium III;
128Mb of RAM;
6.0GB hard drive;
56Xmax CD-ROM drive;
ATi RAGE IIC AGP video card;
3Com Fast EtherLink 10/100 NIC;
IBM 10/100 EtherJet NIC;
Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16.

I don't know the brand of the motherboard. I didn't put this computer together, and suspect that most of the parts in it are the ones it was originally assembled with.

The hard drive currently has Windows98 installed on it, but on the Disk Partitioning screen I told the installer to remove all current partitions and replace them with the standard Linux partitions.

I would appreciate any suggestions you might have to help me install Linux on this machine. Or if there are any web sites I could go to to discuss this problem with someone more knowledgeable than I am. I have looked on Google, and Altavista and tried to find an answer to the problem at LinuxQuestions and LinuxCompatible but have gotten no responses at either.

Thanks for any suggestions you may have.

-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.


(Edited by hyperbole on 10-06-2004 20:31)

Never used Fedora (Mandrake and Slackware....could probably help you out some) but check out what this guy did. Seems he had the same problem.

Later,

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CPrompt,

Thanks for the link. I would like to apologize for taking so long to respond to you. I have spent the day trying to see if the method proposed by the link you posted would work.

The message in the link says that the problem is caused in Fedora Core Release 1 when you ask the install program to format the hard drive. He suggests that the way around the problem is to use another distribution to partition and format the drive with the allocations needed by Fedora, then install Fedora using these already established partitions.

Since I have a SuSe 9.0 distribution, I figured I could get rid of Windows, partition and format the drive by installing SuSe. That seemed to work fairly well, but then I had the SuSe distribution on the drive and I wanted to use space it was using so I found this page http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/ with a bunch of Linux distributions that would fit on a floppy and downloaded this one http://www.toms.net/rb/ and used it to remove the SuSe content from /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2.

Next I tried to install Fedora and when I got to the part where it asked what I wanted to do with the partitions, I used Druid to tell it to assign /boot to /dev/hda1, / to /dev/hda2 and make /dev/hda3 the swap partition, but not to format any of them.

The install aborted with exactly the same error. I have come to the conclusion that the problem is not caused by formatting the drive, but is an error in the way the distribution install script is set up (although that is not consistent with the fact that I was able to use it to install Fedora on another machine last weekend.)

Anyway, I decided to try one more thing. Instead of using the (default) graphical install tool to install Fedora, I tried doing the install in text mode and it allows me to partition and format the drive and I just finished installing Fedora on the machine.

Thanks for your help CPrompt. I thought I would give a little detail here in case anyone else runs into the same problem.

-- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful.