On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Waleed Harbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> It seems a bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431124 , try > use ntfsresize http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsresize before you > start the installation. > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Richard Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this but I ran into an issue >> installing F9 on my wife's laptop. During the NTFS partition resizing >> process the progress bar went back and forth rapidly and there was no disk >> activity. After going to the console and checking 'top' I noticed that >> anaconda and Xorg were eating up all the CPU and leaving nothing for >> ntfsresize. I 'renice'd Anaconda and Xorg to 19 and ntfsresize to 1 and it >> made progress but it was still very slow. >> >> In the end everything worked out fine but if I was a novice it would have >> been a very frustrating (well actually it was) and BAD user experience. Can >> the installer be modified in some way to prevent this from happening or is >> this just a plain old bug? >> >> The system is a HP/Compaq Presario V5000 with an AMD Turion ML-32 1.8GHz >> and ATI Radeon M200 chipset. >> >> Thanks, >> Richard >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Yours, > Waleed Harbi > If you want your goals to come true, don't sleep > I took a look at the bug report but it didn't seem to apply to me. I didn't get a segfault or failure, ntfsresize just didn't get enough CPU cycles to complete until I reniced anaconda and xorg. I searched and didn't find anything so I'll submit a new bug. Richard
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