On Thu, 25 Nov 1999,drx wrote:
| 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
Hate to say it, but if you try to install "everything", you may need the 1 1/2
Gig. Try taking the time to select the individual packages you want to use
instead. This will take less space, and you will have a more secure system when
finished. After all, if you are not going to use the Apache web server, why
have it installed?
Just my 2 cents worth,
--
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The measure of a man is in his honor ...
