Bug 69229

Summary: Installer crashed when creating / partition
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Alan Nash <alannash>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Alan Nash 2002-07-19 11:43:41 UTC
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Description of problem:
The programme successfully created the /boot partition, but repeatedly crashed 
when trying to create /  The crash generated a bug report.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just run the installer
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Actual Results:  It crashed!

Expected Results:  Should have created partition

Additional info:

Attempting to create partitions, using Disk Druid, on 1.2 Gb drive which has 
1.1 Gb of free space. /root partition created at 50 Mb. Attempting to create / 
partition at 900 Mb and would have gone on to create swap partition at 190 Mb, 
but couldn't get that far.

Comment 1 Alan Nash 2002-07-19 11:45:13 UTC
Created attachment 65924 [details]
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Comment 2 Brock Organ 2002-07-19 21:53:27 UTC
do you have the same problem if you do not create a sepearte /root partition?

Comment 3 Alan Nash 2002-07-23 12:47:16 UTC
Hi, Bork

Cracked it!!! Had to reduce the root partition to 850 Mb, but after that it was
plain sailing


Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-23 16:08:58 UTC
This problem was fixed in the current release.