While attempting to install Red Hat Linux 6.1 on a HP Omnibook 4000C (32mb RAM, 773MB HDD) via NFS, the installer crashed. I laid out my partitions as follows: /boot 16M / 691M Linux swap 64M I selected Gnome workstation install. According the installer this required 563M, and my root partition is 691M, plenty of room right? Wrong. The installer reported that I need 37M more space on /. What is going on? Is the space the selected packages require in addition to something else? Or is the installer not seeing the correct size of the disk? I then tried doing a custom install that required only 365M only to have it give a signal 7 error halfway through the package installation process. Could you clarify what might be happening here? The only thing I can think of that might be causing this problem is that the bios detects the hard drive as being 773MB (1571 C/16 H/63 S) while the Linux installer detects it as being 772MB (785 C/32 H/63 S). Is there anyway around this problem?
A GNOME Workstation installation actually required about 750M of disk space, as it creates room to grow for the installation. This factor is hard coded into the installer, and that is why you are getting the error message about needing more disk space. In reference to the signal 7 that you are receiving in the middle of the installation, this is because your machine ran out of memory. Are you running the installer in GUI or text mode?? I would highly recommend running the text installer with only 32M RAM. To get into the text installer, just type "linux text" at the boot prompt and it will launch you into the text-based installer, which takes a considerable amount less RAM.