RE: Problem installing RH6.0 from CHIP CD

["Atul Chitnis" <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I faced a similar problem yesterday with the PCQ CD (March '99) on a
> machine with a little more than 1GB of space. I tried workstation
> install but it gave a message that there was 'Not enough diskspace for
> this kind of install'. This was *after* I had done the disk partition
> for swap space and '/' using disk druid. I pressed the 'back' button and
> went to 'custom install' and said 'everything' and this time it didnt
> complain and it got installed successfully.

As the Friendly Manual says - the Workstation install *adds* to existing
setups (i.e. existing partitions are not deleted), the Server install wipes
out everything, and custom lets you decide.

Naturally the WS setup failed because it didn't find place for more
partitions to add!

Atul


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