Comment 4 for bug 55012

Not really, because the real problem was that the partitioner was the cause of it. It changed the partitions around from how I had them set up in the first place. The way the partitioner interpreted my setup was to put the root directory in the space I allocated for the swap drive. That, or a mismatch on one of the other drives ('/usr/' into '/'), is probably what caused the crash. And I figured out how it happened in my head.

When I was making the partitions on the drive, it was on top of another Linux installation. I deleted the root partition and put another one in it's place, which the installer marked as hdb8. Then I deleted the other three partitions (swap, /usr and /home) and added new ones, which the installer marked hdb5, 6 and 7. When I went to the next screen, the partitions had been swapped around so that they were in the order 5, 6, 7 and 8, but the order that I has assigned their partition types was not swapped with them. So the 2.1G root partition became the 2.1G /usr partition, the 1.25G swap became the 1.25G root, etc.

I went back and deleted all the partitions at once, reinstalled them in order and had no problem with the installation at all.

Dennis Kaarsemaker <email address hidden> wrote: *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 48355 ***

IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Thanks for your report. I'm afraid that your disk seems to be too small
to complete an Ubuntu desktop installation successfully. Bug 48355 notes
that the partitioner should have warned you about this.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 48355
   partitioner should warn about too small disk while autopartitioning (some_device)

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Installer crashed.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/55012

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