Disk space issue during install.
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue Apr 20 20:47:15 UTC 2004
Jon Goodridge wrote:
> Rick,
>
> I'll do future messages bottom posting.
>
> I used Disk Druid to:
> - Delete partition
> - Create partition
> - format partition
> - set mount point of partition to "/".
>
> I did not tell Disk Druid not to use the other partitions (not sure
> how to do this). This may be the source of the problem. Nothing
> jumped out at me as something I had to do. I kind of got led down the
> golden path of setting the partition as root and going forward. If
> install was trying to use the swap partition, then this is an install
> problem as it clearly said the swap partition was swap when if formated
> it. The other partition to be come "/home" is the more likely
> canidate. The amount of free space on /home would make sense with the
> amount of extra space it was telling me it needed.
That's possible. IIRC, the partitions the system will try to install to
are marked with an "x" in one of the columns, but I won't swear to it
(haven't done an install on a pre-formatted disk in a while). I suppose
it is possible that DD is seeing another partition labeled "/" or
"/home" and is trying to make use of it.
You might take a look at the other virtual consoles (CTRL-ALT-F1 through
-F4) and see exactly which filesystem is causing the problem.
> On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 02:52 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
>> Jon Goodridge wrote:
>>
>>> Rick,
>>> I am trying to install a linux partition. On the first attempt
>>> the partition was already a linux partition that was created by
>>> Mandrake's partition tool. I just used Disk Druid to format the
>>> partition to delete the old junk there. Later I used Disk Druid to
>>> delete, create, format and set the partition's mount point as the
>>> root. Same results. Another reason I am sure that the install
>>> program thinks it is a Linux partition is that install copies some
>>> install files to the partition. When I reboot in Mandrake and look
>>> at the partition, I find the partition as it should be, a 4GB linux
>>> partition with 20KB of used space.
>>> For someone reason the install is just getting confused about
>>> the partition size. Or is it me ?
>>
>>
>> Well, leaving the confusion issue out of it, when you deleted the Linux
>> partition and told diskdruid to use that unallocated space, did you also
>> tell it to make it "/" and to format it? Did you also tell it to NOT
>> use the other Linux partitions (including the swap partition)?
>>
>> BTW, we prefer bottom-posting on this list.
>>
>>> On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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