On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:17:10AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > Comments/Problems: > > What basically happend is the following: > I got a new harddisc. I moved my old disc, with my old / and /home to > /dev/hdc and to test the new installer and attached my new disc as > /dev/hda. The installer booted up fine, and when asked I told him to > use /dev/hda entirely for seperate partitions. Seeing the details of > the proposed partioning, I made some changes, most notable I removed the > partition intended for /var (I wanted to use my old root partition on > /dev/hdc1 later for that). So /var resided on the rest of the /, which > got only 300 MB, or so. > > The Rest of the story is easy: > > During tasksel, I told him to install a desktop system. After > downloading 206 of 627 files to install, /var/cache/apt/archives became > to big for that partition, and the progressbar stopped.
I would advocate a separate /var/cache in those cases. > I didn't got a warning, that my / was to small for /var, nor an error > message, when the installation process coudln't continue. It should be possible to do step-wise installs with in-process removal of the already installed packages, no ? > Okay, it's a clear user error, but it can't be called an error, without > an proper error message, can it? ;) I don't think it is a user error. Friendly, Svne Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
