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Bug 13071

Summary:	RFE:Handle symlinks and determine space available in /tmp better
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	roxus
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Matt Wilson <msw>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2003-03-04 21:38:09 UTC	Type:	---
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Description roxus 2000-06-26 18:09:26 UTC

Doing a pcmcia.img install over FTP on a Dell laptop, the install hangs
part way thru DLing the Netscape RPM.

This turned out to be becoz there was insufficient disk space in /tmp to
complete the FTP of the package (so this could have happened to any
package really, but since the Netscape RPM is big, it was easier to break)

I symlinked /tmp to /var/tmp (/var being its own paritition) so that it
didn't try to use the / partition (which was deliberately small) for
storing the temporary FTP file, but you should take this into consideration
when deciding on disk space requirements (maybe ask the user WHERE to store
temporary files ... /tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/tmp , user-defined ?)

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-08-17 20:56:35 UTC

Added to list of future issues to address.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-19 23:05:15 UTC

*** Bug 5034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-19 23:06:38 UTC

*** Bug 3557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-26 16:10:40 UTC

Moving to RESOVLED - DEFERRED from CLOSED - DEFERRED

Comment 5 Michael Fulbright 2000-09-26 16:56:22 UTC

Moving to RESOVLED - DEFERRED from CLOSED - DEFERRED

Comment 6 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-02 22:38:38 UTC

*** Bug 17976 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-06 16:24:48 UTC

*** Bug 18150 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-06 16:25:33 UTC

*** Bug 18092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-06 16:26:35 UTC

*** Bug 5034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-06 21:42:55 UTC

*** Bug 18037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-18 20:42:42 UTC

*** Bug 18877 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-27 22:11:16 UTC

*** Bug 19557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-31 15:44:03 UTC

*** Bug 19997 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14 Need Real Name 2001-01-17 15:51:51 UTC

*** Bug 23860 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Brent Fox 2001-08-10 19:05:32 UTC

*** Bug 50568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16 Michael Fulbright 2003-03-04 21:38:09 UTC

This appears to work much better now.