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Hi folks,

I'm trying to install Fedora 10 from the LiveCE in a VirtualBox virtual drive. Everything goes fine until it gets to be time to do the partitioning, at which point I get the following error:

"The following errors occurred with your partitioning:

Your /partition is less than 2107 megabytes which is lower than recommended for a normal Fedora install..."

I've got the virtual drive set to 2.6 gigs (i.e., well above the 2107 stated minimum).

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

How much is it allocating to the swap partition on the VDI?

Why not just up the VDI size to 3Gb?

TerryE,

First of all: thanks for the reply.

Secondly, I didn't see an option to set the swap partition size. I'll look again and report back...

I can't up it to 3gb because I don't have the space Actually, that's not entirely true, I have two main partitions: an Ubuntu partition (12 gig) and a Vista partition, which I occasionally need (62 gig). Unfortunately, even though I have 10+ free gigs of freespace on the Vista partition, Vista's partition manager won't let me touch it...

I still don't see any info about the swap size...

If your host FS is that full then it is going to get hopeless fragmented. BAD news. (This is true for both NTFS and Ext3 BTW).

Well, thanks anyways

Now I have another excuse to get a new computer!

Not really, given that for just over $100 you can get another 0.5-1Tb disk drive. By far the cheapest way to stretch most machines for another year or two is to buy some more disk and some more RAM. Spending $150 on this is a lot greener than going out and spending $600+ to get another computer. Besides you can almost certainly reuse the disk if not the RAM when you do come to replace the system.