Not enough space for building a livecd on the / filesystem???

[Joshua C.]

I've been creating livecds from livecds for quite some time now
without problems. Currently I'm getting a message about insufficient
free space:

Transaction couldn't start:
installing package man-pages-3.32-14.fc16.noarch needs 5MB on the / filesystem
installing package iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1_1-1.fc16.noarch needs 6MB
on the / filesystem
installing package ipw2200-firmware-3.1-5.fc15.noarch needs 6MB on the
/ filesystem
installing package ql2500-firmware-5.06.02-1.fc16.noarch needs 7MB on
the / filesystem
installing package rt73usb-firmware-1.8-8.fc15.noarch needs 7MB on the
/ filesystem
installing package iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-5.fc15.noarch needs 7MB
on the / filesystem
installing package rootfiles-8.1-7.fc15.noarch needs 7MB on the / filesystem
installing package atmel-firmware-1.3-8.fc15.noarch needs 8MB on the /
filesystem
installing package
libertas-usb8388-firmware-2:5.110.22.p23-5.fc15.noarch needs 8MB on
the / filesystem
installing package rt61pci-firmware-1.2-8.fc15.noarch needs 8MB on the
/ filesystem
installing package zd1211-firmware-1.4-5.fc15.noarch needs 9MB on the
/ filesystem
installing package mtr-2:0.82-1.fc16.x86_64 needs 9MB on the / filesystem
installing package ivtv-firmware-2:20080701-21.noarch needs 10MB on
the / filesystem
installing package iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-3.fc15.noarch needs
10MB on the / filesystem
installing package ipw2100-firmware-1.3-12.fc15.noarch needs 11MB on
the / filesystem

Error creating Live CD : Unable to install: Could not run transaction.


That's ridiculous. There are more than 26GB free on the HDD where the
build takes place and there're 8GB free memory on the machine. The
command I'm using is

livecd-creator --config=/mnt/win/fedora-cache/ks-files/fedora-livecd-kde.ks
--fslabel=Fedora16-`date +%F`-Custom-Build --title=Fedora-`date +%F`
--product=Fedora-`date +%F` --tmpdir=/mnt/win/fedora-cache/tmp/
--cache=/mnt/win/fedora-cache/cache/ --verbos

and as I said it's been working for quite some time now. The last
livecd I built was on Dec 12 and everything was fine. Can someone help
me fix this? How to point to the free memory?

--joshua

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 21:30:27 +0100,
  "Joshua C." <joshuacov(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I've been creating livecds from livecds for quite some time now
>  without problems. Currently I'm getting a message about insufficient
>  free space: 
>  That's ridiculous. There are more than 26GB free on the HDD where
> the
>  build takes place and there're 8GB free memory on the machine. The
>  command I'm using is 
The live image is built on a loop mounted image of a specific size. When
that fills up it fails. It doesn't matter if your hard drive has more space.
You can use "part / --size " followed by a size in your ks file to override
the value set in the base ks. The games spin uses 10240 and fills up a dvd.
(The file system gets shrunk and then compressed during the build process
so it's OK to have it somewhat bigger than you really need.)

[Joshua C.]

2011/12/17 Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to&gt;:
>  On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 21:30:27 +0100,
>   "Joshua C." <joshuacov(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote:
> > I've been creating livecds from livecds for quite some time now
> > without problems. Currently I'm getting a message about insufficient
> > free space:
>
> > That's ridiculous. There are more than 26GB free on the HDD where the
> > build takes place and there're 8GB free memory on the machine. The
> > command I'm using is
>
>  The live image is built on a loop mounted image of a specific size. When
>  that fills up it fails. It doesn't matter if your hard drive has more space.
>  You can use "part / --size " followed by a size in your ks file to override
>  the value set in the base ks. The games spin uses 10240 and fills up a dvd.
>  (The file system gets shrunk and then compressed during the build process
>  so it's OK to have it somewhat bigger than you really need.) 
Thanks, that did the trick.