RedHat 9.0 Install Problem with OpenOffice

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:55:12AM -0000, Tejas A Vora wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install RedHat 9.0 on pentium machine. My Harddisk space is 40 GB. Installation partion has almost 36 GB space.
> 
> I amtrying to install in GUI mode with Server and Everything opetion. Itried to install so many time - but whenever it reaches openofice RPM installation, installation aborts saying
> 
> "There is a problem with media or No disk space or spme problem with storage device". I tried so many times. Then I install only with MINIMAL option and it got installed. After that I tried to upgrade with EVERYTHING - and still the installation aborts at openoffice with th same error.
> 
> Please help me ASAP.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tejas

For general information see

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#install_dies

The most likely problem is installing to ext3 (the default)
filesystems.  The install kernel is known to be fragile with ext3.
Try again, but install to ext2 filesystems.  You can convert to ext3
after the install is complete.  Instructions here:

http://www.rhil.net/docs/ext2-to-ext3.html

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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