Bug 49617

Summary: RFE: kickstart: if not enough space for partition, graceful error message
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brent Fox <bfox>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 7.3CC: katzj
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slightly modified ks.cfg; the disk was 4.3 GB big. none

Description Pekka Savola 2001-07-21 17:21:52 UTC 
beta2 with updates disk, bootnet kickstart.

if you have specified too long partitions, so that they don't fit on your
disk, you get a message:

Could not allocated <sic> requested partitions: Partitioning failed.  Could
not
allocate partitions.

Hitting enter generates a traceback.

Perhaps the kickstart code should check for minimal space requirements
first?
Comment 1 Pekka Savola 2001-07-21 17:22:48 UTC 
Created attachment 24427 [details]
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Comment 2 Pekka Savola 2001-07-21 17:23:47 UTC 
Created attachment 24428 [details]
slightly modified ks.cfg; the disk was 4.3 GB big.
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2001-07-22 03:34:22 UTC 
Changed so that partitioning errors in kickstart are fatal as that's more inline
with the way that kickstart has always worked (and partitioning warnings don't 
pop up dialog boxes now either)