Disk space issue during install.

[Rick Stevens]

Jon Goodridge wrote:
> I am trying to install RH9 and install keeps saying that I don't have 
> enough disk space.   I brought my install options down to just over 1GB 
> on a 4GB root partition and install would actually try to install and 
> then fail saying the disk was full.  I have deleted, recreated and 
> formatted the partition.   I still get the same result.   Surely 4GB is 
> enough space for a root install.  I have put Mandrake Linux root on a 
> ~1GB partition before and I have Mandrake 10 another 4GB partition 
> running just fine. I must be missing something.

Yes, if the 4GB partition for Red Hat actually exists and is NOT set
currently as a linux partition (type 83), delete it and restart the
install.

Anaconda (the installer program) will try to reuse partitions set as
type 83 (linux) and 82 (linux swap).  If it can't find any, it tries to
use unassigned space to create a type 83 partition in.  In your case, it
is actually complaining that it can't find any free space on your drive,
which is true if you really have partitions set up that occupy the whole
disk and none are type 83.  If you delete the RH9 partition, anaconda
will see the free 4GB and create a type 83 partition in it.

Yes, it's a misleading error message.

> 
> Additional Info:
> Since my bootable IDE CD-ROM drive is failing, I am booting from a 
> floppy and installing from the RH9 CDs on the USB CD-ROM drive.
> 
> System info:
>     Compaq 300MHz Celeron
>     256MB memory
>     8GB drive single partition for WindowsXP
>     13GB drive 4 partitions
>         - 4GB for Red Hat 9
>         - 500MB swap partition
>         - 4GB for Mandrake 10.0
>         - 4.5GB for a shared /home for both Linux
>     Failing IDE CD-ROM drive
>     Working USB CD-ROM drive
> 
> Txs,
> \JonG
> 
> 
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