Bug#435769: debian-installer: no checking for sufficient disk space
Le vendredi 3 août 2007 07:55:47 Christian Perrier, vous avez écrit : Quoting Frédéric Brière ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal d-i does not appear to make sure that the partitioning scheme it has been given allows for sufficient space. This was made painfully obvious Hmm, that would require knowing what exactly the user wants to install.. Indeed, at least checking that the base system will fit before running base-installer would be something to do. However, there is currently no way to really know what the size of a Debian base system is because it depends on what packages are part of it. We could however have some hardcoded value somewhere for /, /usr and /var and have partman choke if one of these is below this value. But, even this is not that trivial to implement. This, that bug could be reassigned to some partman-* package. For something that warns users that the partitioning scheme does not fit the choice of packages, see #282155 which no-one has been able to implement (here again, the size of an installed system depend on the user's choices). Hi, I'm reacting on this bug because I thought that the latest installer had many other issues because of this bug: I tried to install Lenny Beta2 amd64 KDE within KVM, providing an disk image of 2G. The installer failed to complete the install of the packages because of lacking space (but did not mention anything to me). I see two problems here: * Not checking that enough disk space is available * Not mentioning the user that he lacks space. The second can rather easily be correcting by mentioning the fact after the error triggers (just check df). With that in hands, the user can know that the partitioning scheme he has chosen (or the virtual image he provided) is not good. For the moment, the message is just there is an error, which is not sufficient to me. Regards, Didier -- Didier Raboud, proud Debian user. CH-1802 Corseaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#435769: debian-installer: no checking for sufficient disk space
Quoting Frédéric Brière ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: debian-installer Severity: normal d-i does not appear to make sure that the partitioning scheme it has been given allows for sufficient space. This was made painfully obvious Hmm, that would require knowing what exactly the user wants to install.. Indeed, at least checking that the base system will fit before running base-installer would be something to do. However, there is currently no way to really know what the size of a Debian base system is because it depends on what packages are part of it. We could however have some hardcoded value somewhere for /, /usr and /var and have partman choke if one of these is below this value. But, even this is not that trivial to implement. This, that bug could be reassigned to some partman-* package. For something that warns users that the partitioning scheme does not fit the choice of packages, see #282155 which no-one has been able to implement (here again, the size of an installed system depend on the user's choices). signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#435769: debian-installer: no checking for sufficient disk space
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal d-i does not appear to make sure that the partitioning scheme it has been given allows for sufficient space. This was made painfully obvious when I screwed up and allocated 15 MiB to /+/usr+/var (instead of 15 GiB, silly me) and d-i gleefully proceeded to choke on this. For the curious, this results in a lot of misleading /pool/.../foo.deb is corrupt messages, which lead me to suspect I had a bad CD. (That message in itself is a bug IMO, but I'm not sure if it's worth opening another just for that.) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
