When performing a cd or hard drive installation without enough free diskspace, user will get message telling him the amount of additional space necessary. Upon hitting <back> in order to adjust the package selection, user will get dialog telling him that the device or resource is busy. This is because the filesystem was not unmounted when the user hit <back> Hitting <retry> from the error dialog will unmount the filesystem correctly and allow the user to continue with the installation/upgrade.
*** Bug 2693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Example of bug occuring: 1. Select packages which take up more disk space than you already have. 2. When you are warned about this, go BACK to re-select packages. An error, "Unable to mount..." (something) appears. This isn't fatal, the install goes on as normal. It looks as if the installer is trying to mount a partition that is already mounted. RH6.0/Intel, FTP install. ------- Additional Comments From notting 05/10/99 10:05 ------- known bug. Hit 'retry' and you should be able to proceed. ------- Additional Comments From Tristan.Greaves 05/10/99 10:20 ------- Hitting RETRY does indeed allow the installation to continue successfully, but the error dialog box still allows dread to enter the heart of the user. :-)
*** Bug 2301 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** If there's not enough space on the target drive and the user chooses to go back and fix the package selections a bit, the installer does not unmount /tmp/hdimage as it probably should. Currently, the user has to unmount it before proceeding to package installation, otherwise the installer reports the device as busy and cannot continue. ------- Additional Comments From msw 04/27/99 11:16 ------- Please verify with 6.0
This issue is fixed in the 6.1 release.