At 08:46 PM 1/19/99 -0700, you wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> > >What happens if my ppp link dies in the middle? >> > >> > apt-get will pick up the download when you re-connect, keeping >> > downloaded packages in /var/cache/apt/archives with partial downloads >> > in [...]/partial. It doesn't install a thing until it's downloaded >> > the lot, so make sure you have enough disk space. >> >> What happens if you don't have enough disk space?!! > >Well space in the archive is checked before download begins so it probably >shouldn't happen. But if you run out then it will abort will lots of >errors and never call dpkg. If you run dpkg and then run out you -should- >be fine but strange things have been reported... >
this actually happened to me last night while running dselect. I ran out of space while apt was http downloading, and it errored out on me. I freed up some space, restarted the install, and it seems to be humming away fine.
