new install: how can i not have enough space?

[Tony Molloy]

On Tuesday 14 April 2009 10:37:57 pm Tom Lane wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
> > Quoting François Cami <fcami at fedoraproject.org>:
> >> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:53:38 -0400
> >>
> >> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >>> argh!  i just started a new install on my laptop, so i could divvy
> >>> things up into numerous logical volumes.  i selected a pile of
> >>> software, only to be told that my selected packages require 4698 MB of
> >>> space and i don't have that much available.
> >>>
> >>> excuse me?  i have separate LVs for /, /home, /usr, /var, /tmp and
> >>> /opt, with the *smallest* of those being 5G (/usr is 16G, /home is
> >>> 50G, all the rest are 5G).  how exactly do i not have enough space
> >>> with 16G for /usr?
> >>
> >> F10, rawhide ?
> >
> >    ok, i could have mentioned that it's an x86_64 install of f11 beta.
> > :-)
>
> In that case it sounds like a bug introduced in the recent anaconda
> rewrite.  Have you looked in bugzilla?  If you don't see something
> similar there already, file it.  (It might well be there already.)
>
> 			regards, tom lane

Well it has nothing to do with the recent Anaconda rewrite. I have exactly the 
same problem on Dell Precision and Dell Latitude boxes. This is with the 
original netinstall iso. I haven't had time to really look into this.

Tony


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