[CLUE-Tech] Fedora Core 1 on a 4Gig HDD?

[William]

The specific error is really quite long and listed something like 4 possible causes of terminal
install failure.  The jist was essentially not enough HDD space or a bad disk or CD-drive.  I
ruled out the bad disk with a test on three other machines (that worked fine) and I replaced the
CD drive with a trusted DVD drive.  That leaves the HDD space issue.

As for package selection, I simply select Custom, then Minimal.  In theory, I expect that to
install the Linux kernel and a logging facility.  In practice, Fedora installs a ton of stuff
including various programming languages and a bunch of RedHat-centric stuff.


--- Skipworthy <skipworthy at realivetech.com> wrote:
> 
> Not the answer, but...
> 
> What was the specific error, and what packages are you trying to 
> install? 
> 
> Maybe it's not the disk but the size of the root partition?
> 
> I haven't tried Fedora yet, BUT  I'm pretty sure I put 9.0 on a 4G 
> drive, and I *know* I put 7.2 and a respectable collection of packages 
> inside a 2G partition....
> 
> I guess I thought Fedora was supposed to be pretty streamlined. Is it 
> possible that Fedora is really that bloated? 
> 
> feh. yet another reason to get another hat...
> 
> 
> 
> > In booting from CD-ROM and using the GUI Anaconda to attempt a 
> Minimal installation of Fedora onto
> > a small box with a single 4Gig HDD fails during the copy/install 
> phase.  The error it throws seems
> > to indicate insufficient drive space.  (Aside:  The Anaconda 
> installer should check HDD
> > requirements *before* attempting to copy files.)
> > 
> > I'd still like to get a fundamental Fedora on this box with it's 
> meager 4Gig HDD.  Can this be
> > done?  How?
> > 
> > Thanks all!
> > 
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