Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 19 January 2005 19:58, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:45:09PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Anyway, I did get it to go past DD finally, and the install then
>> proceeded just fine, till it got to openoffice at the head of cd
>> #2. It reported the media was full and aborted the install, so I
>> rebooted
>
>???
>
>Did you run mediacheck on that CD?

Yes, all of them passed

>If it passes, can you repeat this crash (at the same point of
> installation)? Are you 100% sure your RAM isn't flaky?

I wouldn't call it a crash, it ran out of disk space, but didn't tell 
me which disk, and I've inspected the whole drive now, and it has 
lots of free space.
>
>Can you repeat this if you let DD auto-partition your drive (yes,
>I'm aware you don't agree with DD regarding partition, we're just
>trying to reproduce the crash at this point)?

That was my next test, tommorrow when I'm a bit fresher.  I've turned 
it off for the night now.

>> Like I said, DD boggles the mind.  What do I do next?
>
>You bypassed DD, remember?
>
>Emmanuel

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