Description of problem: Started an install on a HP Compaq nc8000 laptop and it got as far as partitioning before I started running into problems. - automatic partitioning failed, and I got some warnings about aligning partitions before entering that screen. These were said to be ignorable though - manual partitioning with Disk Druid resulted in: File "/usr/lib/anaconda/gui.py", line 762, in nextClicked rc = self.currentWindow.getNext() File "/usr/lib/anaconda/iw/partition_gui.py", line 636, in getNext (errors, warnings) = self.partitions.sanityCheckAllRequests(self.diskset) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partitions.py", line 820, in sanityCheckAllRequests swapSize = swapSize + request.getActualSize(self, diskset) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/partRequests.py", line 450, in getActualSize raise RuntimeError, "Checking the size of a partition which hasn't been allocated yet" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Adding some more info. This machine was set up with one NTFS partition with XP on. Then an extended partition with three more Win9x partitions which I deleted and created /home - 15 GB / - 14 GB <swap> - 1 GB /boot - 100 MB
This is a bug that pops up from time to time that I can't reproduce at all :( Do you have a reliable means of reproducing? Can you grab the /tmp/anacdump.txt somehow (since I'm guessing you don't have a floppy and hence why you didn't attach the dump :)
Kjartan, has this been fixed for you with FC2 test3?
I'm afraid I'm going to have a hard time reproducing this as I'd have to wipe all my partitions and repartition with Windows 2000 partitions etc since that was the original setup when I started out with FC2 test1. I'll install test3 and see if it behaves with what I have now at least, but I think this can be closed if nobody else has seen it.
Created attachment 100463 [details] This is what anaconda asked me to save to floppy when it crashed
I *think* I have a similar problem, on install of fedora core 2 (the final version) after partitioning I crashed out witha traceback, attached in comment number 5. When I tried installing again it did not get past the first screen your presented with either in graphics or text mode.
Created attachment 101227 [details] anaconda dump from same error This is the anaconda dump that applies to this error. My drive is 76 GB. I have three(3) partitions that were partitioned and formated in Copy Commander: 1: Primary, (15 gb) WinXP fresh install Extended (61 GB) 15 GB empty space for Fedora 2. 15 GB NTFS, empty 3. 31 GB NTFS, empty This Western Digital drive is hooked up through a Manhattan RAID card, but is not currently being mirrored. BTW, Linux is "Greek" to me at this point, but everyone has to start somewhere :-) I am trying to dual boot my XP with Fedora Core 2 final. The first attempt failed as I tried to install Fedora on the 15 GB chunk left outside the Extended partition. Since I had been mirroring this drive to a smaller drive, some space had been lost due to shrinking. I decided to fill this extra space with an empty partition. I thought this would force Fedora to install in only the 15 GB chunk set aside. It didn't work. I then repartitioned the whole drive to allow Fedora to install inside the Extended partition. The results are in the dump file. I will state that I connected a 28 GB drive to the same RAID card that had a fresh install of XP on one partition (the rest of the drive was free). This setup did work, and Fedora worked fine. Therefore, provided its not the RAID channel, the RAID card should not be a problem as I see it. I am going to erase all the partitions after the 15GB XP and see if Fedora will accept my peace offering. lol If you have any tips, please feel free to throw them my way :-) Timothy
Created attachment 103608 [details] Dump from a RHL 9 installation. This problem exist since RHL 9, as I suffer from it too. Commenting out the "part" instructions in the kickstart file and forcing Anaconda to ask the user to partition manually the disk allowed me to proceed with the installation. Attached, anacdump.txt from a RHL 9 installation.
I _believe_ this will be fixed for FC3 test3 (at least, a way that I managed to reproduce it is fixed).
I have tried installing FC3 , i faced the same problems when ever i selected automatic partitioning ,it gave error failed, then I tried manual partition , it took all the space of 26GB ,but how do I define the space for FEDORA on my hard drive which has 29GB for XP and other partition is 26GB , I dont want to use the whole 26GB for Fedora ? may be just 10GB would be enough for boot, root and swap, even if I do the automatic partitioning ,would it give me the option of deciding the space. can any one let me know how to acheive this shamim