trouble installing red hat 7.1

[Kinjana]

I am trying to change a machine from debian to red hat just to see what the differences are like.

When I try to install it however, I get an error that says "there was an error transferring the system image to your hard disk, you are probably out of disk space" or something very similar to that. I keep pairing down what I select to install and have it down to 850 megs

I am trying to install to a second hard drive (hdc, hda has a windows partition, and hdb is the first cdrom) partined 256mb to swap and 2.8 gigs to the / partition

wityh 2.8 gigs of space why is it giving me an error saying i've "probably" run out.

Any thoughts?

Kinj

[Niminator]

How did you partition it? Maybe a partition is too small.

I have a really tiny hard drive, and I actuall just 3 partitions. 50 megs for the boot sector, 400 megs for swap, and the rest, (1.5 gigs or so) for everything else.

[subnet_rx]

are you using the disk partitioner to tell it where / is?

[Kinjana]

Yes, I'm doing both these things. As I said in the original post, I have two partitions, 256 as swap and 2.8 gigs as / no further sub partitions.

It does not even start instailling, and the install size is estimated by the red hat installer at 850 megs. I should have plenty of space. Any thoughts?

[MandK_10]

just a thought. Are you telling the installer to format the / partition. If you have debian on there it may be that you do not have enough space without formatting it.

Mike

[Kinjana]

I was thinking about going back and checking that very thing, that or booting from a floopy and from root $rm -rf *

I'll go double check. I thought that when I delted and redid the partitioning it did not matter what was there and it would automatically reformat. I'll keep at it :)