Fedora Core 1 Installation Error Out Of Disk Space

[07mackenzie]

Hey everyone, I have a problem. Before my installation, I made 3.8 gb of unallocated disk space for linux to make its partitions with. I am installing personal desktop. I put the CD in, start the installation and make the correct partitions and it said it successfully made them. It made: /boot-(about 100mb), swap-(about 256 MB), and root (/) - (The remaining space)

Then, I move on, select the things i want (not much); and begin the installation. It goes for about 20 seconds before giving the following error message:

"Error transferring install image. You are probably Out of Disk Space"

I don't know what its saying; the install file says personal pc only takes up 2.2 gb. I gave it a lot of extra. Please help, I've never had linux on a pc before and this installation is giving me so much trouble! I'm running a pretty old PC: pentium 2 processor, 256 megs of RAM and the 3.8 gb for linux. If anyone could help that would be great. Thanks!

I have already tried the commands:

linux allowcddma
linux ide=nodma

Neither of which have worked for me. Please help!


i know this error is not accurate because i checked the incomplete installations on the partition and only about 2% of the space was used so it couldnt have been out of disk space. Thanks so much!

[imdeemvp]

are you installing everything? or just the default settings because i allocated a total of 8gb just for fedora and installed gonme and kde...and after checking my free space i notice i only had about 3.5gb left and if you install everything fedora will need about 5gb...

to be on the safe side just allocate a total of 8gb for fedora (if you have a large disk) and let druid do the rest....you should be fine....

[07mackenzie]

I gave it 10 more gb. Still same error. Please help.

[micha]

That's weird. I got the same error on my Dell Inspiron 8600. Using the command linux allowcddma solved it. Wait a couple of days for Fedora Core 2, it might work better in your case.

[rk29]

i tried to install fedora core 2 on my compaq presario 2800 laptop.

i gave it about 5.5GB of space to install it on. same thing as that person happened to me.
my total installation size was about 2.1GB and according to the error message i got, im likely to have run out of hdd space.

i also tried minimum installation just in case...650mb in 5.5GB. so it must be not that i actually ran out of space..but some other problem..

any help?

[rk29]

oh..no worries.. found out the problem was that there was an error on the install cd 1...

[minlinx]

Hi:
I have the same issue. I am fairly new to the installation infact its the first time. I get the same error and I tried two different copies. The second copy seems to do good until it crashed again with the same no disk space error. Its really frustrating. I really need help badly.

Thanks
M

[minlinx]

I am still strugling. I tried all the defaults and I could see that the installation is almost complete when I get the following and the installation exit...

Attempting to start native X server
Waiting for X Server to start ... log located in /tmp/X.log
X serv er started successfully....
Starting Graphical installation
install exited abnormally

I am using linux allowcd noprobe at the linux promt when I begin the installation but nothing works. Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated.

-M