On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Phil Lavigna wrote:
> > Hi, > > As previously reported, yesterday's upgrade to the latest packages killed X > on this TiBook, so I performed a clean installation today to see if it would > result in a better outcome (nope). But I noticed something strange. The first > two clean installations didn't complete because the last 50 or so packages > wouldn't install, the message was "There was an error installating packages > blah, blah, blah." The root partition (which is 3.4GB) was freshly formatted > during the installer, but when I ran 'df' on console two it said /mnt was 99% > full. I had selected all the 'Workstation' groups, all the 'Graphical > desktop' groups, plus 'Documentation.' > > The third time, I chose all the same package groups except for 'Other > graphical desktops.' The installation then completed without any problem and > only 50% of the root partition was used. Is the installer not accurately > reading the correct size of the partitions? > I bet the bogus cyrus-sasl with the 2GB file got you. > BTW- Stew, since X works fine during the installer, is there anyway I can > have a functional desktop after the install? Or should I just wait until it > gets fixed in Cooker? Thanks. > > Did you catch my message about manually turning off dri in XF86Config-4? I've seen other ati users with the same complaint on main cooker. Or I could generate the very generic Xconf the installer uses. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
