Bug 58744

Summary:	Mount point / Space needed "-1034109 K"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	john.goshdigian
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Beth Uptagrafft <bhu>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Beth Uptagrafft <bhu>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	john.goshdigian
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Description john.goshdigian 2002-01-23 23:03:48 UTC

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Description of problem:
on 4GB drive,  when select packages to install that require more space than
available,
error messsage reports negative space needed (-1034109K) for mount point "/"


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Prepare to  install onto 4GB drive
2. select custom, select everything
3.
	

Actual Results:  installation formats partitions
then reports
Mount Point      Space needed
/                      -1034109 K

Expected Results:  Show amount of space needed, so user can determine how much
to 
A) increase partition OR
B) remove packages. 

Additional info:

this happened on an ES40 with 7 drives, installing on a 4GB drive,
partitoin layout:
  1 -- 27  ext2   /boot
  27-- 91 swap
 91 --1023 ext2 /

selected all packages.

Comment 1 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-02-11 19:13:25 UTC

We can not reproduce this problem.

Comment 2 Phil Copeland 2002-03-11 20:47:26 UTC

Actually this was down to an older diskutils package that got it's math wrong.
We couldn't reproduce it because,.. elliot had already rebuilt the package with
a fix for i386 by the time we looked at it.

Lesson learned: don't underestimate of forget the importance of giving rpm
version numbers in bug reports 8)

Phil
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