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I have also found this problem, when upgrading from 8.2 to 9.2. Increasing the
ramdisk_size had no effect.
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-10-27 14:52 ---
To summarize:
It seems that hdlist files are copied to rootfs where they cannot fit.
Looks like they should be placed somewhere else.
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-10 11:02 ---
Partitions don't seem crowded:
$df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 863M 226M 638M 27% /
none 253M
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-10 12:09 ---
I've bumped up the ramdisk up by launching installation CD this way:
expoert initrd=network.rdz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram3 vga=788
But the ramdisk has still
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-10 12:15 ---
BTW, shouldn't those files be copied to newly mounted ramdisk on /tmp/stage2?
Installation ramdisk could be bumped up a couple megabytes (e.g to 48000).
Or maybe even
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-16-10 10:24 ---
BTW, I have the same problem with download edition.
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-16-10 10:27 ---
BTW, the machine has 512 MB RAM, while the install ramdisk (/dev/ram3) has 30 MB.
df shows that /dev/ram3 is 94% full.
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-16-10 11:10 ---
I've tried to upgrade to 9.1 first (so all that's needed will fit on the ramdisk).
In 9.1 installer I got the following error on the 3rd console:
* starting ster
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--- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-16-10 13:09 ---
/dev/ram3 has always been 30MB, as you can see in the boot disk images (9.0 and
9.1 both have this in the append line in syslinux.cfg: append initrd=network.rdz
