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64 Appendix C. Troubleshooting Your Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
C.3.4. Using Remaining Space
You have a swap and a / (root) partition created, and you have selected the root partition to use the
remaining space, but it does not fill the hard drive.
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders, you must create a /boot partition if you want the /
(root) partition to use all of the remaining space on your hard drive.
C.3.5. Other Partitioning Problems for x86 System Users
If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably
have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid’s dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
• A / (root) partition
• A <swap> partition of type swap
Tip
When defining a partition’s type as swap, do not assign it a mount point. Disk Druid automatically
assigns the mount point for you.
C.3.6. Other Partitioning Problems for Itanium System Users
If you are using Disk Druid to create partitions, but cannot move to the next screen, you probably
have not created all the partitions necessary for Disk Druid’s dependencies to be satisfied.
You must have the following partitions as a bare minimum:
• A /boot/efi/ partition of type VFAT
• A / (root) partition
• A <swap> partition of type swap
Tip
When defining a partition’s type as swap, you do not have to assign it a mount point. Disk Druid
automatically assigns the mount point for you.
C.3.7. Are You Seeing Python Errors?
During some upgrades or installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the installation program (also
known as anaconda) may fail with a Python or traceback error. This error may occur after the selection
of individual packages or while trying to save the upgrade log in the /tmp/directory. The error may
look similar to:
Traceback (innermost last):
File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.1//usr/lib/anaconda/iw/progress_gui.py",