i just purchased RH 5.2, i had just totally messed up my RH 5.1 installation, so i was going to format it and install 5.2. the problem is that when i select "Workstation" it says that i don't have enough room. but i have over 2 gigs of free space. i have tried it with the free scape partitioned, and as it just free space with the same result both times. the custom install works just fine, except that i HATE hand-seleting the packages. has anyone else reported this problem? i have tried on my computer and a friends as well. it did the same thing on his. can someone tell me what i need to do fix it?
It may be looking for free space in known-bootable area. The automated installs have to be ultra-conservative in this area or else we'll install lots of machines into a non-bootable state and people won't be happy with that, either... If you could post here a listing from fdisk of all the drives in the system (I presume when you say that 2G is free you mean that some other OS is taking some of the room on the disk) that would help us be able to tell more accurately whether the install is just being conservative because it is unsure that it can install a bootable system, or if there is a genuine bug here. Thanks for taking the trouble to file the bug report. ------- Email Received From "Nathan Mace" <nmace85> 04/09/99 21:24 -------
i have a 6.4 gig hard drive(total) i ahve a primary dos partition that takes up 2 gigs. i have an extended dos partition with a logical drive inside that takes up 2 gig. then the remaining space was just "there" free and unpartitioned. i also tried partitioning it to and i got the same error
OK, my conjecture was correct: with a 2GB partition at the beginning of the disk, the install cannot be sure that Linux will be bootable, as on many machines, only the first 1GB is directly bootable. This is a feature, not a bug. It is unfortunate that it makes your life harder; it would, however, cause even more trouble if we changed it. I'm sorry I can't provide you with a more favorable answer. (In response to your emailed question: emailing and posting to the web page both work; both are available to us from the web interface.)