Out of Disk Space !!

[Jaswinder Singh Kohli]

Hi,
Again same error, but the problem is very strange as i like to relate
it to  hardware this time.

The system is cPCI-6860 Board, with SCSI Controller, mpt drivers are loaded.
Two Seagate SCSI disks are attached.

Just after printing Starting Anaconda, Fedora Core System Installer...
it prints following lines which i guess leads to outta disk space problem....

error -2147483630 reading header: cpio read failed - Success
error -2147483630 reading header: cpio read failed - Success
or sometimes related to gzlib

a little later detects Monitor(SyncMaster) and Graphics Cards ( ATI
Mach64) and Mouse

Everything goes fine until the system formats and then trying to
Transfer the install image
to hard drive.

The same thing works fine on other systems such as, standard P4 Machine with HT

The cPCI Machine has 2 xeon HT processors, ECC 1024M RAM.

Earlier it also gave problems with SCSI1 disk, as the system hanged
for indefinate time .
with the status light of SCSI1 disk glowing, where as SCSI0 was fine.

Just upgraded anaconda to version latest from development branch still
the cpio/gzlib
problem remains. 

As we have 3 of such systems and all of them exhibiting same problem.
where as same CD works fine on other systems.
Can it be due to some hardware incompatibility with anaconda.


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:33:20 +0530, Jaswinder Singh Kohli
<jskohli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot for your reply
> I'll get back to you soon, after working on that.
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> 
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:45:56 -0600, Peter Eisch <peter at boku.net> wrote:
> >
> > If you look at 'pivotroot' down in the source, you'll see that stage2.img
> > gets mounted as the new / during the install.  Whatever drivers you updated
> > in initrd.img will also need to be updated on the new / image loaded from
> > stage2.img.
> >
> > What Drivers? ... the drivers for whatever controller your target install
> > disk is connected.
> >
> > On 2/8/05 10:36 AM, "Jaswinder Singh Kohli" <jskohli at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Installing only bare minimum system, to act as gateway and proxy server.
> > > All the partitions are correctly  formatted.
> > >
> > > I am using stripped down, buildinstall which only updates, initrd.img
> > > and not the other files.
> > >
> > > Since building stage2.img using buildinstall, requires lot of other
> > > packages to be in the
> > > install tree, for X and others, which i dont' want to include, as it
> > > is for proxy server
> > > and very small image.
> > >
> > > And what kind of drivers ???
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:16:05 -0600, Peter Eisch <peter at boku.net> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> You probably don't have drivers for that particular kernel that you are now
> > >> booting from in the stage2.img.  Whatever you did to update the boot
> > >> initrd.img, also do to the stage2.img.
> > >>
> > >> peter
> > >>
> > >> On 2/8/05 6:18 AM, "Jaswinder Singh Kohli" <jskohli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> I am getting this error while installation, using the ks.cfg which
> > >>> partitions the drive into
> > >>> three partitions, /      = 1 G
> > >>>                       swap = 1 G
> > >>>                       /var  =  rest of space ( 30 + G)
> > >>>
> > >>> The cd image that i built had modified stage2.img, ( took care of
> > >>> .buildstamp)
> > >>> bootdisks upgraded to kernel 2.6.10...,
> > >>> Only Modified isolinux/initrd.img is used, rest of the files like,
> > >>> stage2.img and hdstg2.img
> > >>> are just repackaged version of what were on Original FC3 Iso's, only
> > >>> changed .buildstamp
> > >>>
> > >>> Now when i booot that CD, the boots up, detects hardware, anaconda starts X
> > >>> The partitions are created and formatted, but then the Install ends
> > >>> with a message.
> > >>>
> > >>> "An error occured while transfering install image to your harddrive .
> > >>> You are probably
> > >>> out of disk space"
> > >>>
> > >>> Where as when i perform fdisk -l on tty2,  which shows, all the
> > >>> partitions were created
> > >>> and also on console 6 the formatting was successful and hence lot of
> > >>> space is there.
> > >>>
> > >>> On tty3, the detailed error message is as follows...
> > >>>
> > >>> Error transfering stage2.img: [Errno 2] No such file of directory:
> > >>>   '/mnt/sysimage/proc/rhinstall-stage2.img'
> > >>>
> > >>> I did a search on google, and archives, came up with no results.
> > >>>
> > >>> Can any one tell me what i am missing or doing wrong and why it is
> > >>> trying to copy
> > >>> rhinstall-stage2.img from some proc fs instead of stage2.img from CD.
> > >>>
> > >>> I am stuck at this point for  too long now, any Pointers, any ideas,
> > >>> will be helpful, that can
> > >>> get me going in forward direction.
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks....
> > >>
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