Bug 11257
| Summary: | Partitionless install weirdness | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | marty |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Michael Fulbright <msf> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | CC: | nolen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-05-10 19:37:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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To be more clear, choosing a value greater than 2047 MB for the / filesystem fails. Yes, this is because of the 2G partition size limit for DOS filesystems. So, basically this is a limitation of the underlying FAT32 filesystem and has nothing to do with the linux installation. We will have a limiter in the next release to prevent users from breaking this barrier . . . just didn't think about it for this release. fat32 can be greater than 2G fat16 cannot |
Once the size of the redhat.img file created reaches 2,147,483,647 bytes the installation fails with an anaconda error: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 342, in ? intf.run(todo, test = test) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1165, in run rc = apply (step[1](), step[2]) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 702, in __call__ if todo.doInstall (): File "/tmp/updates/todo.py", line 1112, in doInstall self.fstab.mountFilesystems (self.instPath) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/fstab.py", line 428, in mountFilesystems isys.ddfile("/mnt/loophost/redhat.img", self.loopbackSize) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 52, in ddfile _isys.ddfile(fd, megs) SystemError: (2, 'No such file or directory')