Bug 253982
| Summary: | RFE: LiveCD "Install to Hard Drive" should reveal how much disk space is needed | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | xunilarodef |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | katzj |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-08-23 15:05:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Thanks, added! The actual message from the f8t2 LiveCD is:
The root filesystem you created is not large
enough for this live image (4096 MB required
Back Exit installer
^
A closing parenthesis and a period would be nice additions. Not nitpicking,
just seeking a nice fit and finish..
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Description of problem: The installer fails to share with the user how much space it requires, which may lead to a lengthy trial-and-error iteration before the install succeeds when attempting to use hard disk space conservatively. How reproducible: Very. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot LiveCD 2. Use the "Install to Hard Drive" application. 3. Select "Use free space on selected drives and create default layout," when there is less free space than anaconda requires. Actual results: When one attempts to use the "Install to Hard Drive" application for a destination of minimal size, and guesses wrong, the reward is a dialog titled "Error" containing: The root filesystem you created is not large enough for this live image. Back Exit installer Expected results: With a small change in in doRepoSetup() circa lines 353-354 (and inserting a new line in between those two; line numbers f8t1 vintage) in /usr/lib/anaconda/livecd.py similar to: "not large enough for this " str("%.3f" % ossize) "MB live image."), type = "custom", one could reduce the trial and error iteration by revealing how much space is required, yielding a dialog similar to: The root filesystem you created is not large enough for this 3994.385 MB live image. Back Exit installer Additional info: This will be: - more accurate, and - simpler to maintain (i.e. do nothing) than attempting to track this moving number in a separate documentation file. Consider the plight of those who wish to have a multiple boot system with a sample of many different releases (or even distributions) with non-trivial amounts of disk space dedicated only to their current favorite system.