rh9 install failures under vmware
Sorens, Michael
michael.sorens at hp.com
Thu May 13 15:58:16 UTC 2004
Hard drive has 4GB; installer said it needed 2.2GB or 2.4GB I believe; is that sufficient margin?
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[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 1:53 PM
To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
Subject: Re: rh9 install failures under vmware
Sorens, Michael wrote:
> Any other ideas for this? I am stuck in the water...
>
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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Sorens,
> Michael
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:39 PM
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> Subject: RE: rh9 install failures under vmware
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> A capital suggestion from both respondents below...
> unfortunately, that did not help. I changed both partitions
> from ext3 to ext2 and still received the same error.
> I even specifically made sure that the two selectable XWindows
> sections were DE-selected in the install list
> (since this is a pdf viewer for X according to the installer),
> but the installer still got stuck on the same package (xpdf-2.01-8).
Are you certain you have adequate space on the hard drive for all the
stuff you're trying to install? The installer does weird things if it
runs out of space.
Yes, xpdf is a PDF viewer for X-Windows (sort of an open-source version
of Acrobat).
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