From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Attempted to install FC3 from released ISO's onto two different computers (1 laptop, 1 tower) with the following characteristics: 1. Pre-existing NTFS partition on part of the drive 2. Empty space on the rest of the drive. 3. Drive spec: IDE, sizes > 10GB Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC3 disc 1 installation CD 2. Let Anaconda auto partition on empty space 3. Let Anaconda copy disk images over to drive. Actual Results: Anaconda fails with message "There is an error in the installation. You are probably out of disk space." Expected Results: Successful install of FC3 Additional info: It appears to format the disk because I cannot go back to the partition information once I get an error, but fails to copy over the image(s).
Can you verify your media according to the instructions at http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/mediacheck.html?
Yes. Media was successfully verified before installation started.
Can you provide the complete error you receive? Are you getting a traceback after being told there's not enough space?
No as a matter of fact I don't. On the graphical install, I get a dialog box with the message. If I switch to console where messages appear during installation, it's a very brief "installation error" with no other information. A similar thing happens during text mode installation. I might add that if I attempt to create the partitions and lvm in the partition editor, I get the same message.
Exactly what's the partitioning on the drive before autopart and after?
Before autopart: I installed Win2k on a 2GB NTFS partition on a brand new laptop drive. - 18GB at beginning was left empty. After autopart Based on recollection: logical volume at beginning of 20GB drive that took up about 18GB. It had a /boot, /(root) and Swap partitions.
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
requested by Jams Antill
Is this better with F8 test 1?
I switched to debian long ago. Unless you want to test it yourself, I'd say close the bug. Good luck.