Reposting On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 21:01, Jose wrote:
> See my first message dated Jul 28 for details on first upgrade attempt.
>
> I received the following error message while attempting to upgrade. I
> had about 800 meg free.
>
> "Your system does not have enough free space left for installation or
> upgrade (-1364599662 > 623569508)"
>
> I went to a console and freed up some more disk space, now I had 1.2G
> free disk space on / ( / is the only partition I have other than /boot
> which had 64MG free). It still said I needed to free up some more disk
> space. I figured something is wrong because 1.2G should be more than
> enough disk space for a upgrade. init 6 from the shell gave me a weird
> error message about "TESTING MODE" so dirty shutdown (reiserfs), I went
> into the setup again (thinking it might calculate differently with more
> disk space) and it told me once again that it didn't have enough disk
> space.
>
> I selected option "recommended upgrade"
>
> In future releases (post 9.0), I would suggest adding a little more
> polish to that message to say something similar to "Your system does not
> have enough free space left for installation or upgrade. Setup requires
> an addition xxxmg to proceed." or "...partition /usr requires a
> additional xxxmg to proceed."
>
> Another thing, whenever the install script gets stuck in a loop, it
> doesn't give the user a option exit the install, so partitions get don't
> get unmounted properly.
>
> My system booted normally was prior to before the upgrade attempt.
>
> Am I right that 1.2G free disk space should be enough for a upgrade?
>
