While installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux via kickstart, getting error "Your selected packages require xxx MB of free space for installation, but you do not have enough available. You can change your selections or reboot" although enough space is avail

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Issue

While installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via kickstart, getting error of "not enough space on device" although the device has much memory. The error is as follows.

"Your selected packages require xxx MB of free space for installation, but you do not have enough available. You can change your selections or reboot"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

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