Insufficient Space on Sun Application Server Install

Question

Running a clean install of Fedora Core 4 on a HP DL360 G4p with two drives in a (hardware) RAID 1+0 configuration I am unable to proceed with App Server installation (same problem with PE v9 or v8.2) due to insufficient disk space. There is clearly enough space (120GB or so)!
I read elsewhere that this can sometimes occur because of insufficient Swap space but I have a 4GB swap partition (which is barely used at install time) and just in case I created a further Swap file of roughly 2.5GB.
Output from /proc/swaps and df shows:
[root@optus-v1iytpt2u Desktop]# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 partition 4096564 804 -1
/swapfile file 2553592 0 -3
[root@optus-v1iytpt2u Desktop]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 132921676 5288240 120772480 5% /
/dev/shm 1037448 0 1037448 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d0p3 1984044 35908 1845724 2% /tmp
Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

It seems that native toolkit executable which is called by installer to get the amount of free space does not return the correct value on your system.
One workaround you could attempt:
* Unzip the distribution file into dedicated temporary directory
unzip <downloaded file name>
* Invoke install wizard by running this from the same directory (please make sure java command points to 1.5.0 version or higher):
java -cp .:package/PackageFormat.jar -Xmx256m appserv -nospc
In this case, installer should skip disk space check alltogether so you should be able to install.