Re: Red Hat 9 cannot be installed on 3.2 GB hard disk?

[Féliciano Matias]

Le mer 17/09/2003 à 10:49, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan a écrit :
>  Hello all.
>  
>  I think nobody have tested installing Red Hat 9 on 3.2 GB hard disk. 
>  
>  Last week, I tried to install Red Hat Linux 9 on Winchip 200 machine
>  with 64 MB RAM and 3.2 GB hard disk. The installation step went well.
>  At the stage of selecting the installation option, I select Server and
>  continue. The server installation is about 1.4 GB, and it went well
>  until after transferring install image to hard disk.
>  
>  As soon as the transferring install image to hard disk complete, error
>  message is displayed stating that my machine does not have enough disk
>  space.
>   
Anaconda use a lot of memory. Try with a bigger swap partition.

>  I reboot again the computer, starting again the installation, but
> this
>  time selecting Custom and then uncheck all the group listed. The
>  installation size is now around 550 MB, and then transferring install
>  image continued. Still after completing transferring install image to
>  hard disk, error message being displayed stating that the machine does
>  not have enough disk space.
>  
>  Re-installing the machine with Red Hat 8 yesterday, it went smooth
>  even though I select Server with installation size of 1.4 GB. I really
>  suspect the transferring image is the problem.
>  
>  My HD partitioning info is:
>  /boot 100 MB
>  /swap 200 MB
>  /     2.9 GB
>  
>  My question:
>  1. Why this thing happened? Does anybody have any experience with it?
>  2. Why it is still fail even though the installation size is 500 MB?
>  3. Should I report it on Bugzilla?
>  4. Could I suggest that anaconda have another option like "Minimal
>  install" where nothing is installed, except the base package just to
>  run Linux
>  
>  Thank you.
>  
>  ------------------------
>  Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
>  
>  
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