Insufficient Space on Sun Application Server Install
Running a clean install of Fedora Core 4 on a HP DL360 G4p with two drives in a (hardware) RAID 1+0 configuration I am unable to proceed with App Server installation (same problem with PE v9 or v8.2) due to insufficient disk space. There is clearly enough space (120GB or so)!
I read elsewhere that this can sometimes occur because of insufficient Swap space but I have a 4GB swap partition (which is barely used at install time) and just in case I created a further Swap file of roughly 2.5GB.
Output from /proc/swaps and df shows:
[root@optus-v1iytpt2u Desktop]# cat /proc/swaps
FilenameTypeSize UsedPriority
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2partition4096564 804-1
/swapfile file2553592 0 -3
[root@optus-v1iytpt2u Desktop]# df
Filesystem1K-blocksUsed AvailableUse% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p11329216765288240 1207724805%/
/dev/shm1037448 0 10374480%/dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p319840443590818457242%/tmp
Anyone have any ideas?
I was using the GUI install, it occurs in the usual place that available space is determined, i.e. the screen which has the "Install Now" button (which is greyed out in this case). The screen occurs directly after the screen where you select reigistration options. From previous installs on other systems I believe it is the last screen excluding the "Finish" screen.
I don't have install logs at hand as I am not in that office today.
It seems that native toolkit executable which is called by installer to get the amount of free space does not return the correct value on your system.
One workaround you could attempt:
* Unzip the distribution file into dedicated temporary directory
unzip <downloaded file name>
* Invoke install wizard by running this from the same directory (please make sure java command points to 1.5.0 version or higher):
java -cp .:package/PackageFormat.jar -Xmx256m appserv -nospc
In this case, installer should skip disk space check alltogether so you should be able to install.
