Bug 21389

Summary: Installation Error(s) - System State
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Joseph J. Farino <jjf>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.0   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Joseph J. Farino 2000-11-27 20:45:48 UTC
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 438, in ?
    intf.run(todo, test = test)
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 1030, in 
run
    rc = apply (step[1](), step[2])
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/text.py", line 507, in 
__call__
    if todo.doInstall ():
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1619, in 
doInstall
    self.createCdrom()
  File "/var/tmp/anaconda-7.0.1//usr/lib/anaconda/todo.py", line 1189, in 
createCdrom
    os.symlink(device, self.instPath + "/dev/" + cdname)
OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Local variables in innermost frame:
device: hdc
list: ['hdc']
self: <todo.ToDo instance at 82691b8>
cdname: cdrom
count: 1

ToDo object:
(itodo
ToDo
p1
(dp2
S'method'
p3
(iimage
CdromInstallMethod
p4
(dp5
S'progressWindow'
p6

<failed>

Comment 1 Joseph J. Farino 2000-11-27 20:46:17 UTC
Created attachment 5748 [details]
Anaconda Dump?

Comment 2 Joseph J. Farino 2000-11-28 13:11:53 UTC
It looks as if the was not enough space allocated for our / partition.  /tmp 
and /dev partitions were not specified in disk druid.

We allocated more room for the / partition and it seemed to fix the problem.  
Are there suggested sizes for partitions based on percentages of total drive 
space?

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-11-29 19:33:16 UTC
It depends on what the system is being used for obviously.

For a workstation system I would recommend

/boot  100M
/      at least 1 gig, more like 2-3 would be safe
/home  all the rest. This way you can reinstall the machine and choose not
       to format the /home partition and save all your data.

We have plans to 'sanity check' the partitions before installing to make sure
that there is a minimum space available.