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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Féliciano Matias <feliciano.matias at free.fr>
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