Bug 998289

Summary:	Installer requires swap partition
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	reescf
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, reescf, sbueno, stephent98, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description reescf 2013-08-18 22:51:54 UTC

Description of problem:

Although the installer says that swap is not strictly required but only recommended, it refuses to allow installation to continue without a swap partition. Moreover, it demanded almost 8G of swap on the system I was installing on - presumably because it has 8G of RAM. On a system with a single, small SDD, this is a wopping eighth of the total available storage space. Since it has 8G of RAM, it is also entirely unnecessary.

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

Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-1.iso

How reproducible:

Happened every time I tried.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use KDE spin.
2. Try to install without swap.

Actual results:

Installation cannot continue.

Expected results:

Either the installation is permitted - perhaps after the user confirms they really don't want swap. Or the error/warning should make clear that installation requires swap and that it requires as much swap space as the system has RAM. As it is, it is couched as a recommendation but enforced as a legal requirement.

Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2013-08-19 06:07:26 UTC

Thanks for your report.

> [8G RAM] is a wopping eighth of the total available storage space.

Could you confirm that you are installing to a 64 GB SSD, then?

> Installation cannot continue.

Do you mean that the Begin Installation button is inactive?

I cannot reproduce this problem by starting with an empty 64 GB disc image and configuring storage from Manual Partitioning as follows:
/boot  1    GB
/     12    GB
/home 52.53 GB (allocate all remaining space by entering a size larger than the amount of space remaining)

Could you attach a screenshot of the Manual Partitioning dialog after you have configured storage in a way that the installer does not accept?
(Press the PrintScrn key to save a sreenshot from KDE Live.)

$ qemu-img create f19-test-3.img 64G
Formatting 'f19-test-3.img', fmt=raw size=68719476736 
$ qemu-kvm -m 8192 -hda f19-test-3.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F19/Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-1.iso -vga std -boot menu=on

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2013-08-21 19:49:10 UTC

Please attach /tmp/storage.log and /tmp/anaconda.log from when you hit this problem to this bug report.  Thanks.