Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 998289
Installer requires swap partition
Last modified: 2013-09-30 11:26:40 EDT
Description of problem: Although the installer says that swap is not strictly required but only recommended, it refuses to allow installation to continue without a swap partition. Moreover, it demanded almost 8G of swap on the system I was installing on - presumably because it has 8G of RAM. On a system with a single, small SDD, this is a wopping eighth of the total available storage space. Since it has 8G of RAM, it is also entirely unnecessary. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-1.iso How reproducible: Happened every time I tried. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use KDE spin. 2. Try to install without swap. Actual results: Installation cannot continue. Expected results: Either the installation is permitted - perhaps after the user confirms they really don't want swap. Or the error/warning should make clear that installation requires swap and that it requires as much swap space as the system has RAM. As it is, it is couched as a recommendation but enforced as a legal requirement.
Thanks for your report. > [8G RAM] is a wopping eighth of the total available storage space. Could you confirm that you are installing to a 64 GB SSD, then? > Installation cannot continue. Do you mean that the Begin Installation button is inactive? I cannot reproduce this problem by starting with an empty 64 GB disc image and configuring storage from Manual Partitioning as follows: /boot 1 GB / 12 GB /home 52.53 GB (allocate all remaining space by entering a size larger than the amount of space remaining) Could you attach a screenshot of the Manual Partitioning dialog after you have configured storage in a way that the installer does not accept? (Press the PrintScrn key to save a sreenshot from KDE Live.) $ qemu-img create f19-test-3.img 64G Formatting 'f19-test-3.img', fmt=raw size=68719476736 $ qemu-kvm -m 8192 -hda f19-test-3.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F19/Fedora-Live-KDE-x86_64-19-1.iso -vga std -boot menu=on
Please attach /tmp/storage.log and /tmp/anaconda.log from when you hit this problem to this bug report. Thanks.