Disk space issue during install.

[Rick Stevens]

Jon Goodridge wrote:
> Rick,
> 
>     I am trying to install a linux partition.  On the first attempt the 
> partition was already a linux partition that was created by Mandrake's 
> partition tool. I just used Disk Druid to format the partition to delete 
> the old junk there. Later I used Disk Druid to delete, create, format 
> and set the partition's mount point as the root.  Same results.  Another 
> reason I am sure that the install program thinks it is a Linux partition 
> is that install copies some install files to the partition.  When I 
> reboot in Mandrake and look at the partition, I find the partition as it 
> should be, a 4GB linux partition with 20KB of used space.
> 
>     For someone reason the install is just getting confused about the 
> partition size.   Or is it me ?

Well, leaving the confusion issue out of it, when you deleted the Linux
partition and told diskdruid to use that unallocated space, did you also
tell it to make it "/" and to format it?  Did you also tell it to NOT
use the other Linux partitions (including the swap partition)?

BTW, we prefer bottom-posting on this list.

> On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 12:49  PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Jon Goodridge wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to install RH9 and install keeps saying that I don't have 
>>> enough disk space.   I brought my install options down to just over 
>>> 1GB on a 4GB root partition and install would actually try to install 
>>> and then fail saying the disk was full.  I have deleted, recreated 
>>> and formatted the partition.   I still get the same result.   Surely 
>>> 4GB is enough space for a root install.  I have put Mandrake Linux 
>>> root on a ~1GB partition before and I have Mandrake 10 another 4GB 
>>> partition running just fine. I must be missing something.
>>
>>
>> Yes, if the 4GB partition for Red Hat actually exists and is NOT set
>> currently as a linux partition (type 83), delete it and restart the
>> install.
>>
>> Anaconda (the installer program) will try to reuse partitions set as
>> type 83 (linux) and 82 (linux swap).  If it can't find any, it tries to
>> use unassigned space to create a type 83 partition in.  In your case, it
>> is actually complaining that it can't find any free space on your drive,
>> which is true if you really have partitions set up that occupy the whole
>> disk and none are type 83.  If you delete the RH9 partition, anaconda
>> will see the free 4GB and create a type 83 partition in it.
>>
>> Yes, it's a misleading error message.
>>
>>> Additional Info:
>>> Since my bootable IDE CD-ROM drive is failing, I am booting from a 
>>> floppy and installing from the RH9 CDs on the USB CD-ROM drive.
>>> System info:
>>>     Compaq 300MHz Celeron
>>>     256MB memory
>>>     8GB drive single partition for WindowsXP
>>>     13GB drive 4 partitions
>>>         - 4GB for Red Hat 9
>>>         - 500MB swap partition
>>>         - 4GB for Mandrake 10.0
>>>         - 4.5GB for a shared /home for both Linux
>>>     Failing IDE CD-ROM drive
>>>     Working USB CD-ROM drive
>>> Txs,
>>> \JonG
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