On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 16:03 +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote: > On Thursday 28 August 2014 14:22:44 Werner Pommerer wrote: > > I'm installing SLC6. With the Packages XORG/XFCE I get many errors, like: > > Just a hunch: > > Check the total available disk space. If it's actually /target/var/cache that > is full, then the root or /var filesystem of your install client is not > appropriately sized (modify your disk_config), if this is not the case then > it > may be you're running out of memory (because /var is composed of a read-only > part (nfs mount, CD-ROM / flash drive) and an in-memory part that is used for > storing all modifications (e.g. downloaded packages).
FAI used to mount a RAM disk over the APT cache area. This is "/target/var/lib/dpkg" when installing Debian. The relevant line in fai.log is Ramdisk mounted onto /target/var/lib/dpkg There is a similar trick in use for yum. A grep over my configuration space (which is based on the default examples) reveals: class/CENTOS.var:FAI_RAMDISKS="$target/var/lib/rpm $target/var/cache/yum" You can set FAI_RAMDISKS to "NONE" to turn off the feature. If you still run out of disk space, you may mount a larger partition over /var/cache/yum, replace /target/var/cache/yum with a symlink to a directory on a larger partition, or even use a NFS mount (yes, I have done this for apt, it works). This goes into prepareapt.SOMECLASS hook for apt, check the name for case of yum. You may want to make a copy of the content of /target/var/cache/yum before you replace it with a symlink or mount over it, and unpack the original content at the new location. Regards, Toomas
