Installation Fails - VMWare machine

[Stu]

I'm trying to install Ubuntu in VMWare (v.5.5) and it continues to fail. I've tried many hardware configurations with no luck. Attached are the syslog & install files.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Thanks for reporting this. According to /var/log/partman you have 2 ext2 partitions:

/dev/hda1 320753664 -> roughly 305MB
/dev/hda6 148022784 -> roughly 141MB

Both of these are too small to hold an Ubuntu installation (you need at least 2.5GB for '/' ).

In any case, the fact that the installer does not warn that the installation will fit is also bug 48355.

[Stu (stuarth)]

Hi,

The following link contains a minimum hardware spec, can you explain the need for 2.5GB for "/"?
http://ftp.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/ch03s04.html

Rgds,

Stuart.

----- Original Message ----
From: Vassilis Pandis <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, 22 September, 2006 6:33:31 PM
Subject: [Bug 61894] Re: Installation Fails - VMWare machine

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48355 ***

Thanks for reporting this. According to /var/log/partman you have 2 ext2
partitions:

/dev/hda1 320753664 -> roughly 305MB
/dev/hda6 148022784 -> roughly 141MB

Both of these are too small to hold an Ubuntu installation (you need at
least 2.5GB for '/' ).

In any case, the fact that the installer does not warn that the
installation will fit is also bug 48355.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 48355
   partitioner should warn about too small disk while autopartitioning (some_device)

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Installation Fails - VMWare machine
https://launchpad.net/bugs/61894