Warty PPC - Installer does not check disk space

[John Levin]

On 28 Oct 2004, at 02:29, Will Backman wrote:

> Install on iBook 500mhz Dual boot with OSX.
> Made a 1.9G root partition, installer never checks available disk space
> before starting.
> After getting 90% throught the install, dumps out to a curses package
> manager.
> I figured that it might give me a warning before starting the install.
> Should I bugzilla this as an RFE?  Or should I RTFM?
>

What's the error message?

I think I had something similar - with a 5gig root partition, halfway  
through installing software (the base system I think) I got an "out of  
space" message. Rather misleading, given the size of the partition.

The problem was actually setting the boot partition - a space had been  
left free when I resized my OS X partition for this, but - as I recall  
- there was another partition perhaps created by the install disc that  
I had erroneously used.

The important thing to note (thanks to people in #ubuntu) is that the  
boot partition has to be within the first 8 mb of the mac hard drive.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/howto/installation- 
powerpc
doesn't say anything about this.

When I have time, I'll write a "dual boot with OS X" guide - I need to  
run through the install again and do some checking.

John