Kuraiken wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I think there's something wrong with the Mandrake install program. (or
> it could have been carried over from RedHat's, I don't know)
> Here's what happened:
>
> I had to install on a 2.1 GB HDD. I partitioned it thus:
> 100MB - /
> 800MB - /usr*
> 800MB - /home*
> 100MB - /tmp
> 32MB - swap
>
> the * partitions were growable so they took up the slack leftover from
> the swap allocation.
> I chose only about 416MB worth of apps and utils.
>
> Thing is...somewhere around the middle of the rpm installation (you
> know, the one with the progress bars)
> it stopped and gave me some weird error about no space for database or
> something...I continued anyway and it gave me the same error for each
> package.
> At some point later on, it says no more space or something. What gives?
> Does / partition need more than 100MB?
It sure looks like it.
Here's what I ended up with for my normal home installation:
[root@tippy /root]# du -shx /
986M /
[root@tippy /root]# du -shx /usr
553M /usr
[root@tippy /root]#
[root@tippy /root]# du -shx /home
15M /home
[root@tippy /root]# du -shx /tmp
7.0K /tmp
So, / here takes up around 400M. You've got to remember that you're
holding /var in your root partition and that takes up quite a bit of
room (and grows larger). KDE (in /opt, which is also part of your root)
fills around 65M also.
This installation is probably quite a bit larger in / than yours is,
since I've also got WordPerfect and Applixware installed (both in /opt
and thus counting towards your root figure).
--
Steve Philp
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