A bug in the text based ISO installation CDs?

[Rob Prowel]

In choosing to (keep) a previously formatted root
partition (albeit an empty one) the installation
procedure tells me that not enough space exists on the
target partition to install the selected packages?  I
selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is
3000MB in size?

%smirk on.
Is my math faulty?
%smirk off.

cheers,
Prowel

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[Antonio Olivares]

--- Rob Prowel  wrote:
> In choosing to (keep) a previously formatted root
> partition (albeit an empty one) the installation
> procedure tells me that not enough space exists on
> the
> target partition to install the selected packages? 
> I
> selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is
> 3000MB in size?
>
> %smirk on.
> Is my math faulty?
> %smirk off.
>
> cheers,
> Prowel
>
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This now depends on the swap partition, boot
partitions and other partitions that are on your
system.  By default the swap partition size is double
the ram, so if you have 512 MB of Ram, then your swap
partition will be 1024 MB, 256 MB then 512 MB will be
your swap partition size, and so on

3000MB
  -1080MB
---------
  1920 MB swap ?
- 1024 MB
--------- 
   896 MB
 - 100 MB /boot partition ?
---------
   796 MB ???

There should be enough space unless you have 1024 MB
of ram which would give you a swap of 2048 for which
definitely would need more space.  Sorry if none of
this makes sense, System was previously partitioned
and you are keeping a / (root ) partition.  Do not
know, hopefully someone will provide a better answer,
or simply state that there is not enough information
to determine what is wrong.

Run

$ fdisk -l

to see how the disk is partitioned and better answer
your question.

Best Regards,

Antonio

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[Rob Prowel]

--- Antonio Olivares  wrote:
> > I
> > selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is
> > 3000MB in size?
> This now depends on the swap partition, boot
> partitions and other partitions that are on your
> system.  By default the swap partition size is
> double
> the ram, so if you have 512 MB of Ram, then your
> swap
> partition will be 1024 MB, 256 MB then 512 MB will
> be
> your swap partition size, and so on
>
> 3000MB
> -1080MB
>
> 1920 MB swap ?
> 1024 MB
>
> 896 MB
> 100 MB /boot partition ?
>
> 796 MB ???

point taken...the machine is rather light: 48MB of EDO
RAM, 200mhz pentium classic and a 3GB hard disk (to be
used only as a firewall and wireless bridge)

my fdisk for the target disk (before) starting the
installation was

sda1    /          2920MB (bootable) ext3
sda2    swap        ~80MB

being an old Solaris geek I still stay close to the 2
times RAM rule of thumb for swap.

I left his alone and all I did was under druiddisk I
set the target mountpoint for sda1.  I had already run
mkswap on the swap partition.

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[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 18:06 -0800, Rob Prowel wrote:
> --- Antonio Olivares  wrote:
> > > I
> > > selected 1080MB of packages and the partition is
> > > 3000MB in size?
> > This now depends on the swap partition, boot
> > partitions and other partitions that are on your
> > system.  By default the swap partition size is
> > double
> > the ram, so if you have 512 MB of Ram, then your
> > swap
> > partition will be 1024 MB, 256 MB then 512 MB will
> > be
> > your swap partition size, and so on
> >
> > 3000MB
> > -1080MB
> >
> > 1920 MB swap ?
> > 1024 MB
> >
> > 896 MB
> > 100 MB /boot partition ?
> >
> > 796 MB ???
>
> point taken...the machine is rather light: 48MB of EDO
> RAM, 200mhz pentium classic and a 3GB hard disk (to be
> used only as a firewall and wireless bridge)
>
> From the release notes for FC4 it requires 64MB of ram for (text)

install. You may be seeing a message as a result of inadequate memory
and not actually based on the size of the drive.
> my fdisk for the target disk (before) starting the
> installation was
>
> sda1    /          2920MB (bootable) ext3
> sda2    swap        ~80MB
>
> being an old Solaris geek I still stay close to the 2
> times RAM rule of thumb for swap.
>
> I left his alone and all I did was under druiddisk I
> set the target mountpoint for sda1.  I had already run
> mkswap on the swap partition.
>
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[Rob Prowel]

--- Jeff Vian  wrote:
> > From the release notes for FC4 it requires 64MB of
>
> ram for (text)
> install. You may be seeing a message as a result of
> inadequate memory
> and not actually based on the size of the drive.

good suggestion given my lack of sharing all relevant
initial information but considering I'm actually
building the disk on a machine with 2GB of RAM (the
hard disk will then be moved to the light machine
after it is configured) that's (probably) not the
culprit. :^)

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