drx....the initial installation puts virtually nothing in a /home
partition. So you're trying to do an "everything" install with just 900
megabytes of space allocated to store all of the compressed software on
a 600+ megabyte CD. The installation is reporting to you that it needs,
at a minimum, 524 bytes more allocated to the / partition to
successfully complete your "everything" installation. Why don't you
believe this? I recommend that you swap your allocations and give the /
partition the 1900 megabytes and the /home partition the 900 megabytes.
That will work and leave a little space for expansion in the /
partition.
Alan
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
