HFA should check free space disk

[Mathieu]

Hello,

while trying to install HFA04, we launched it on the root partition, and while the HFA was decompressing itself and coppying the new files on disk, the root partition came full: the result was no more kernel, no more grub config... lots of system files were missing and the HFA happilly said that it successfully installed it self. We just had to reisnstall Splat from scratch.
So it would be nice if the HFA could check the free space on / before starting to write files.

Mathieu.

[melipla]

I feel your pain.

You can still boot into Single User mode, but since the system thinks that the HFA is applied, you can't reinstall it. I spent 2 hours on the phone with support and trying to do a hack so that I could reinstall the SPLAT portion of the HFA. We were able to trick it, however some of the links weren't created because I was in single user mode and I ran into unsolvable problems...but I think the system was hosed from the get-go.

I would suggest a larger root partition too....

[Mathieu]

No, I was unable to boot at all: the HFA erased the grub config files, not written the new kernel... So the boot loader was unable to load at all.
We spent some times trying to copy the missing files from another gateway with a Linux live cd, but top many files were missing, and we had no list of them.

[kva.kva]

It's strange. I doubt that HFA changes grub files. May be you have problems not only with HFA installation... Sometimes I forgot and unpacked HFA not in /var directory (it's directory from release notes) and had problem like melipla.
In any case I agree with your offer.

[Mathieu]

The HFA was for VPN-1 + Splat, so it was also upgrading the kernel. Changing kernel version means updating grub config.