On Wednesday 19 January 2005 22:03, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:26:28PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> But why did it bail out from lack of disk space when the most >> utilized partition its working with is only 10% utilized after the >> first disk is installed? > >What's "it"? Are you still talking about Disk Druid, or is this > something later on in anaconda? If so, at what point, and what was > the "bail out" message exactly? What partitions did you end up > making? > > I'm referring to the installer (its name is anaconda?) bailing out after inserting the 2nd cd, bailing out for lack of (IIRC) "media space". I made a 100M /boot on /dev/hdb1, a 50M /dos on /dev/hdb2, a 4GB on /dev/hdb3 I intend to use as /root eventually, a 4GB /home on /dev/hdb5, a 1GB swap on /dev/hdb6, a 3GB /var on /dev/hdb7, and the rest of the disk, about 33GB as / /dev/hdb is a 46GB ATA100 drive with quite a few hours on it but no known bad sectors. When it bailed out and gave me the reboot as the only choice, I inserted the rescue disk as it was rebooting, got a shell and mounted each partition to /mnt/hdbboot, /mnt/hdbroot, /mnt/hdbhome, etc, etc till they were all mounted, but none of the partitions on the disk was more than 10% full, most at 2%, maybe 3%. The only one a df said was full is /tmp/loop0, about 175M which shows as 100% full. Everything else has oodles of room. The box only has a half a gig of very thoroughly tested ram in it. And I haven't the foggiest where this 175M /tmp/loop0 actually resides, but I suspect in memory. I gave up for the evening and shut it off at that point, and tomorrow just for giggles and entertainment, I'l let it do an automatic install on /dev/hdb. I'm curious as to just how fubar that will be. I'm not overly happy with /var on the same spindle (I got bit by that one real good with a bad kernel a few months back when it turned the whole drive read-only, preventing the log from being written that would have defined the src of the problem), so at some point I may re-arrange things and put it on /dev/hda someplace. /dev/hda is a 40GB ATA133, and has an install of BDI-Live on /dev/hda5, and the rest of it is FC3RC3 which I can cheerfully blow away at some point given a good install of FC3 final on /dev/hdb. Ideally, the only common partition between the two boots should be /swap, and maybe /boot since it doesn't seem to hurt doing a mix-n-match there either. Each grub entry points to completely different sets of partitions except for /swap. >-- >Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> > <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
