On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:42AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: > Out of curiosity.... > I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. > The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die > before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd > bootable). I was using a partition like > > /boot primary 10MB > /swap primary 32MB > / primary 32MB > /home logical 1000MB > /usr logical 800MB > /var logical 250MB > > I changed that now to > > /boot primary 10MB > /swap primary 32MB > / primary rest > > and the installation went smoothly. > > Now I'm just wondering what was wrong with what i assume is a wrong > partitioning of my HD?
I think the problem is the install routine need enough space for /target/base_2_2.tgz *and* its unpacked contents. This leads to needing more space for '/' than you will probably ever need again. I know I had the same problem using a 50MB '/', but if I made it bigger, say 100MB (if I recall), it worked. I didn't see any documentation about what the minimum disk space requirement is for a floppy install. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> "Time is Free"