On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:11:51AM -0400, nils wrote: >Package: debian-installer >Version: Stretch Alpha 7 >Severity: important >Tags: d-i > >Dear Maintainer, > >- Installing stretch alpha 7 in virtualbox >- set up an 8gb disk, with full disk partitioning, separate home partition >- got partitions of 2 (home), 4 (swap) and 2 (home) GB >- installer failed with a generic error message "A step falied..." when the >target disk was full >- redid it with no separate home partiton, and the installation needs 3,5GB > >The installer should check for required disk space before >installation (or at least once before downloading, and then again >before isntalling) to check that he disk is big enough. Also, the >error message should be a little less generic as novices will not >understand what's wrong.
It's a difficult thing to solve reliably - when you're partitioning, d-i has very little idea of what tasks/packages you're going to be installing later. Another wrinkle is that we don't have reliable data to know how much space a set of packages will take to install later, which is (admittedly) not very good. I've spoken to people about that before; I'll prod again... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "I can't ever sleep on planes ... call it irrational if you like, but I'm afraid I'll miss my stop" -- Vivek Das Mohapatra
