On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 03:46, Sameer Shinde wrote: [snip]
Depending upon the partition table I mailed in my previous mail I started the Linux installation today. I started with " fdisk/mbr " in windows, then I start the installation, The first message I got is, "Automatic partitioning failed: There is not sufficient disk space in order to automatically partition your hard disk. You will need to manually partition your disk for RHL to install. " Though there were a free space of 3.9GB
Hmm.., What install type was selected ? We never need to choose auto partition since we want to create specific partitions, but then you probably chose that, so far fine, I don't see why you should get that error...
Ah.. may be the installer wants at least one partition to be primary in running its auto-partition script and you can install only in logicals, hence it cribbed.
Along with this message there was 2 options i.e. Disk Druid & fdisk. I moved ahead with fdisk, partitioned the disk in the following order /boot, /, swap, /usr & /home allotting around 2.5GB for /usr & went for custom setup.
I guess one selects thats at very start of installation before partitioning dialog, right ?
The total install size of all the packages was around 1.5GB, even then just before the start of installation & after formatting all the partitions
So the installer knew what sizes the partitions were, as it formatted without reporting any error.
I got another message that, " An error occurred while transferring the install image on your hard disk. You are probably out of disk space." The installation aborted here.
What happens here, the installer dumps you to a shell or the machine just hangs ?
Can you check, at this stage after rebooting in rescue mode, what partition structure linux fdisk reports ? See if you can mount the partitions, since they should be formatted,
# mkdir /tmp/test # mount /dev/hda8 /tmp/test
How could be this possible even though there was total of 1GB difference between install size & the disk space? Every time my installation halts here.
You can atleast find out what errors it reports, try switching to ALT-F2/ F3 etc. to get the screen where one can see the notice/error messages from the installer. Send the errors that are reported when your favorite error happens :-).
P.S. Today I got another problem, my CD-ROM is not accepting any disk. It seems that my machine is gona screw me out :)
Hmm.. flaky computer hardware ?? Or your CD-ROM media is bad, which might cause the installer error if it can not read it properly. Try to install from a different set of CDs, no harm in trying different distribution like Debian.
Best regards,
Rajesh