From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: During the upgrade installation of RH9 the rpm files are copied to /mnt/sysimage/var and installed from there. There is no check wether /var has enough free disk space. When /mnt/sysimage/var does not have enough free space and a rpm file cannot be copied fully the installer tries to install the corrupted (partial) file and complains that the installation media is defective. There is no way to skip the installation of the package, even if it is not vital for the system. Workaround: Change to the shell screen and delete unnecessary files in /mnt/sysimage/var Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade install to RH9 2. Choose a package for installation that is bigger than the free space in /var 3. Expected Results: The installer should check before beginning the installation that the biggest rpm file that is going to be installed fits into /mnt/sysimage/var. It should be possible to skip the installation of non-vital rpms (happend to me with kernel-source). Additional info:
This should be happier in our current releases.