When you do a "partitionless" installation using the .img files it installs fine... however, if you wipe them and then reinstall it still thinks that space is being used even though its actually empty after being deleted... And yes, I do know how to delete the image files... I've tried it several times and even tried finding a work around by formatting 6 times and trying it, but everytime, i remove the images, boot back into the installer and it just still thinks that space is taken up... (This might be considered major to people who like to install RedHat into an image instead, people like me)
Hmmm ... I'm trying to clarify your problem ... please add additional notes if I am misdiagnosing your issue ... :) If you install a partitionless install on a vfat partition it will create two files: redhat.img rh-swap.img Deleting these files from the underlying vfat partition should allow the space to be available for use on the vfat partition (even again for another partitionless install :) ) Are you not seeing this behavior on your system ...? I'm not sure what you mean by 'wiping' the files (but not deleting them?) ... are you refering to reformatting the redhat.img file using something like mke2fs ...?
please reopen if I have misdiagnosed your problem above ...
Additional feedback from the bug reporter (sent via email): Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:32:35 +1300 From: Francois Grobbelaar <bles.nz> To: Brock Organ <borgan> Subject: Re: BUG 15781 I know how to use a computer and the files are not in my recycle bin... I know the technical working of a computer, i frikken built my own pc... it is a bug in LINUX... I deleted the images, dos and windows shows the space as free, but the RedHat installer thinks its still taking up space... Just fix it Thank you Francois Grobbelaar
I wish to re-open the topic cause this hasen't solved anything... Try it for yourselves, do a partitionless installation, afterwards, delete the img files (as in del *.img)... run the setup program again and you'll see it still thinks the space is taken up... I also tried this on a test drive and it did the same... now please stop e-mailing me with suggestions like "check your recycle bin", its a bug... test it, and get rid of it... Regards, Francois Grobbelaar