problems with installing quartus II on fedora 12

My advice, also, is to try a more recent version. The old versions didn't play very nicely with versions of Linux other than those specified as supported (a lot of the problems had to do with assuming deprecated behaviors of utilities like head, which only existed as backwards compatibility features of the "enterprise" distros). Your problem here looks like you don't have the permissions to run one of the included utilities (were x permissions stripped off when you did the copy?), so it thinks you have no disk space because it can't interpret the response.

I've had to edit Altera's install scripts for reasons like the aforementioned head issue in the past, so you may want to take a closer look at what the install script is doing. In this case, make sure you have permissions to execute everything in /home/anquegi/altera_install/tools/linux (and really, you should be installing as root anyway like the previous poster suggested).

Failing that, use a newer version; they're generally better as time goes on. 9.1 actually behaves rather nicely on Linux, whereas I've found the GUI behavior to be downright painful on previous versions; for one thing, they're actually using native graphics libraries (Qt) now as opposed to the awful Windows compatibility layer they used to use (MainWin).