Disk space issue during install.
Jon Goodridge
Jon at goodridge.us
Thu Apr 22 13:57:12 UTC 2004
Rick,
Thanks for your help. I finally got RH9 to load by deleting the
partition and letting install set up what it wanted in the free space.
I ended up with a 100MB "/boot" and a 3.9GB root "/" partition. Does
Red Hat require /boot to be separate partition from "/" ?
Anyway I was able to install RH9, but it would not boot. Most likely
I have something wrong in lilo.conf. linux on /boot went fine, but
then I kept getting read-only on "/".
I now have more serious problems. I decided to delete the install (it
was a minimum install for testing anyway). I deleted the RH9
partition. Now my partition table has become corrupted. Disk Druid
can't read it and bombs. I put osl2000 on the drive just to see if it
could read the partition table. osl2000 saw the Mandrake 10.0
partitions, however, when I tried to boot Mandrake lilo gave me:
"L99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99........." for about 1/3 of the
screen and then died.
So are there any partition wizards out there who can help ?
Txs,
\JonG
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 04:47 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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