Problem with Anaconda on IBM T61

[Johann B. Gudmundsson]

Lukasz Trabinski wrote:
> Hello
>
> It's not my first installation of Fedora (my first installation was 
> redhat 4.1), anyway.
>
> I can't install Fedora 8 on my new laptop IBM T61.
> I have tried different options before boot kernel, tried install from 
> DVD or network (via ftp/http) and I always got this messges ( jest 
> before anaconda tring copy RPM packages to  hard disk)
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call first):
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 148, in callback
> s = str(_("<b>Installing %s</b> (%s)\n") %(po, size_string(hdr['size'])))
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 588, in 
> runTransaction
> errors = self.ts.run(cb.callback, '')
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 483, in _run
> self.runTransaction(cb=cb)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 473, in run
> self._run(instLog, cb, intf)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/yuminstall.py", line 1197, in doInstall
> self.ayum.run(self.instLog, cb, anaconda.intf, anaconda.id)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/backend.py", line 198, in doInstall
> anaconda.backend.doInstall(anaconda)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 203, in moveStep
> rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda)
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py", line 126, in gotoNext
> self.moveStep()
> File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 609, in run
> anaconda.dispatch.gotoNext()
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 952, in <module>
> anaconda.intf.run(anaconda)
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 
> 6: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
> I can't find notthing about it in google, bugzilla and list archive :(
>
Possible python bug.. :)

Are you changing any charset settings in anaconda???
if not do it.....
if you are dont.....

Have you tried text mode installation?

Best regards
                    Johann B.