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Bug 226988 - Install Fedora 7 Test 1 from DVD will not use free space on hard drive
Summary: Install Fedora 7 Test 1 from DVD will not use free space on hard drive
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Chris Lumens
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-02-02 14:02 UTC by Gerry Tool
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-02 17:21:39 UTC
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Description Gerry Tool 2007-02-02 14:02:10 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download, check Sha1sum, Burn F7T1 desktop DVD, Check media - pass
2. Use Custom Partitioning, Try to add a new partition in free space
3.
  
Actual results: Error message generated:
Could Not allocate requested partition.  Partitioning failed.  Could not
allocate partitions as primary partition. Not enough space left to create partiion.


Expected results: Create partition and format for installation.


Additional info: This is an AMD/Nvidia mainboard (Asus A8N-E) with one SATA
250GB drive, having 3 primary partitions, one extended partition containing 7
other logical partitions.  The new partition would be sda12.  There is 70GB free
space from which I requested a 10GB new partition.

I gave up and used one of the existing logical partitions (sda10) to install F7T1.
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2007-03-02 15:46:07 UTC 
Could you please attach /tmp/anaconda.log from a failed installation to this bug
report?  We'd like to narrow down if this is an anaconda bug or a parted bug as
the error message you're seeing is sort of a catch-all.
Comment 2 Gerry Tool 2007-03-02 17:21:39 UTC 
I did a new install this morning, and of course everything worked, despite
having tried several times before I filed the bug.

However, I think I've figured out what happened.  A week or so ago, I decided to
try VMware and had to convert my winXP installation to a virtual copy.  I needed
disk space for this and using gparted discovered that the unallocated space was
not included in the extended partition (I have 3 other primary partitions.)  I
then increased the size of the extended partition to include all unallocated
space, and made a new logical partition with part of the space.

So, when I later installed Test 2 and this morning tried again with Test 1, the
free space was available to parted.

I will close this as NOTABUG.  The only improvement I could suggest is for
parted or anaconda to provide a different error message.  I see now that the
message "Could not allocate partitions as primary partition." was a hint, but
the following "Not enough space left to create partiion." left me confused.

Sorry for the false alarm and thanks for looking into it.
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