From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20smp i686) Description of problem: on 4GB drive, when select packages to install that require more space than available, error messsage reports negative space needed (-1034109K) for mount point "/" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Prepare to install onto 4GB drive 2. select custom, select everything 3. Actual Results: installation formats partitions then reports Mount Point Space needed / -1034109 K Expected Results: Show amount of space needed, so user can determine how much to A) increase partition OR B) remove packages. Additional info: this happened on an ES40 with 7 drives, installing on a 4GB drive, partitoin layout: 1 -- 27 ext2 /boot 27-- 91 swap 91 --1023 ext2 / selected all packages.
We can not reproduce this problem.
Actually this was down to an older diskutils package that got it's math wrong. We couldn't reproduce it because,.. elliot had already rebuilt the package with a fix for i386 by the time we looked at it. Lesson learned: don't underestimate of forget the importance of giving rpm version numbers in bug reports 8) Phil =--=