On Sunday 22 May 2005 04:58, John P Poet <jppoet(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I just tried to install Fedora Core 4T3, but it fails with:
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There was an error installing cracklib-dicts-2.8.2-1. This can
indicate media failure, lack of disk space, and/or hardware problems.
This is a fatal error and your install will be aborted.
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I booted off the DVD with "linux jfs", so it would allow me to format
the root partion with jfs.
There will be errors setting XATTRs when disk space runs out. Setting an
XATTR to a value that hasn't previously been used or setting an instance of
an xattr name/value combination that is congruent to 0 mod 1024 will result
in allocating a new disk block and will fail if there is no free block.
Anaconda is supposed to calculate the space needed for installation and refuse
to install a combination of packages that will exceed the space. Maybe
anaconda has the wrong idea about the amount of disk space required for JFS
meta-data and will allow you to install what it thinks is 99% space usage
which is really >100%.
I told it not to install SELinux.
This is a bug then. If you tell it not to install SE Linux then it shouldn't
set any xattrs. Did you tell it via "selinux=0" or via the GUI in anaconda?
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