Bug 26788 - Installer doesn't compute necessary free space properly
Summary: Installer doesn't compute necessary free space properly
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 21945
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard: Florence Gold
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-09 07:01 UTC by Matt McParland
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-12 04:16:19 UTC
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Description Matt McParland 2001-02-09 07:01:33 UTC 
When trying to do an upgrade, the installer doesn't seem to compute the required free
space properly.  It'll tell me it needs another 150mb of space in /usr for instance.  I go
and remove programs totalling about 200mb (and 99% of these program's files reside
in /usr) but it still doesn't like it.  Even if I remove nearly everything, I still cannot continue.

Also, when the installer says "Finding packages to upgrade" there could be a status
indicator, or just some text saying "This could take some time."

When formatting of the disks starts (I ended up just doing an install) there is no status
indicator for (on my dual p2500 ide machine) several minutes.
Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-09 23:16:44 UTC 
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
Comment 2 Preston Brown 2001-02-27 23:01:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21945 ***
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