Fails to complete installation onto 2GB disk
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: debian-installer
Using the 24 Feb 2007 feisty daily DVD live installer, I attempted an installation onto a new 2GB Vmware disk. (This was using the Live DVD desktop installer). The install went through the normal wizard and started the installtion. At some stage (the last % I saw was 69%), the installer completed, however with a tooltip prompt that the disk was 100% full. However no waring was given that the installation might have failed. "df -h" confirms no space is left on "/".
The bug is :-
1. The installer performs an inadequate check on available disk space. The standard LiveCD installation should know how much disk space is required to complete successfully.
2. The installer does not give an adequate error message to indicate the installation failed.
3. There are no obvious GUI disk tools anymore available via Control Panel to view what disks/partitions are available, for a user to diagnose the situation,
| mch50 (mch50) wrote | #1 |
| mch50 (mch50) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in debian-installer: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
This bug is present in the GUI installer and the Text based installer. I had similar experiences with trying to use a 1gb disk in a VMWare system. This is obviously less than the system requirements which I failed to check until today.
However, the check for sufficient free space is such a trivial step that it should be added ASAP to the installer. I imagine this bug will really hit people who try to use ubuntu in VMs and try and allocate conservative disk sizes.