Bug#1032940: 1,5 gig disk not accepted by installer
Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
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Boot method: CD image
Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bookworm_di_alpha2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso download on 2023-03-14
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: KVM VM
Partitions: none, disk empty, parted saying "unrecognised disk label"
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [O ]
Detect network card: [O ]
Configure network: [O ]
Detect media: [O ]
Load installer modules: [O ]
Clock/timezone setup: [O ]
User/password setup: [O ]
Detect hard drives: [O ]
Partition hard drives: [E ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install tasks: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
No formal installation report since the install didn't complete.
An empty disk image of 1,5 Gigabytes in size is rejected by the
Installer after the "Guided - use entire disk" choice and selecting vda
with the message "Failed to partition the selected disk, this probably
happened because the selected disk or free space is too small to be
automatically partitioned."
The release notes Chapter 2.5 "Memory and disk requirements" say that
920 MB of hard disk space should be enough.
Either the release notes are wrong or the installer is wrongly detecting
the disk too small or there is some by-condition that I missed (maybe
the swap partition?).
With a 2 GB partition, installation proceeds.
Greetings
Marc
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