It can't be correct that the root partition has to be at least 1426
megabytes, can it? That's right -- one thousand four hundred and
twenty-six megabytes?
The reason I ask is that this is what I am told during installation.
I'll take it from the beginning:
I have an EIDE disk, 4.3 GB, onto which I would like to install
Mandrake. On the disk I have created three partitions, using fdisk which I
ran from a DOS floppy disk. The three partitions are 902 MB, 1953 MB, and
1200-something, respectively. I had intended to use the 902-megabyte
partition for Mandrake's root partition, and the 1953-megabyte partition
for the /home partition. On the final 1200-something partition I had
intended to install Solaris 7 for Intel machines.
When I came to the Disk Druid part of the installation, I finally
figured out that I had to delete these partitions and then add them again.
Once I had done this, they became "Linux Native" and I could allocate them
to the purposes I wanted. When the time came to choose which packages I
wanted to install, I chose "everything," in the belief that I would have
space enough for this. A little after this, installation failed however.
The error message I was given read like this:
"You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the packages
you've selected. You need more space on the following filesystems:
mount point space needed
/ 524 M "
Since I already have 902 MB for the root filesystem, and Mandrake
wants an additional 524 MB, it seems that it wants at least 1426 MB. I was
asked if I wanted to go ahead and install anyway, but it seemed to me that
I something had to be wrong, and I tried the other options instead -- "try
again," and "menu." In the end I had to abort installation altogether and
try to do it again from the beginning, but it always fails at this same
point and for the same reason.
When I come to the Disk Druid part, everything looks OK:
requested actual
/ hda1 902 902
/home hda6 1953 1953
Despite this, it seems that Mandrake must have changed its mind at the
last minute, and tried to use some other partition for the root
installation -- a partition too small for it to fit.
How do I fix this?
DRX
