Bug 6204 - installation doesn't show how much disk space is required
Summary: installation doesn't show how much disk space is required
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-21 22:45 UTC by Jay Berkenbilt
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-05 14:19:41 UTC
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Description Jay Berkenbilt 1999-10-21 22:45:07 UTC 
The installation process doesn't show how much disk space is
required combined for all packages selected so far.
Previous RedHat versions have supported this back I think as
far as 5.0, but certainly 5.2.  Without this feature,
installing on my laptop (where my Linux / is only 1 GB) is
nearly impossible.  With RedHat 6.0, I could just remove
packages I didn't care about until I got the size down low
enough.  Now, doing this is complete guess work.  The
installation software obviously knows how much disk space is
required for each individual package since it does display
this information.  It seems that it would be easy to have it
report a total size for all selected packages.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-10-22 13:47:59 UTC 
*** Bug 5990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

When installing via FTP and selecting individual packages,
sizes are not shown, for individual packages or for entire
groups. This makes package selection tedious. Previous
versions of the installer provided this feature.
Comment 2 Jay Turner 1999-10-22 14:16:59 UTC 
This issue has been assigned to a developer for further action.
Comment 3 Jay Turner 2000-02-21 21:35:59 UTC 
Issue has been added to feature requests list.
Comment 4 Erik Troan 2000-05-05 14:19:59 UTC 
This has been added for the next release.
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