GG....there is a link on the mandrake website that has all of the updated .img files from the 7.0-2 release. If you make a floppy boot disc from one of these .img files and boot the system from it instead of from the 7.0 cd itself, then the install will proceed as if you had used the 7.0-2 cd. Alan kiriakos wrote: > > It is 7.0, but do you know for sure that this bug has been fixed in > 7.0-2? Because I would like to have 7.0 running and upgrade it from > there. Or else I'd have to download the update I guess, and I don't know > what I should do in that case. I mean, where do I find and where do I > save the update, since my medium is a CD. > > And (attn: guy named root) how do I list a partition empty? I would > think it's already empty, I just created it > > GG > > Tony wrote: > > > > is this 7.0 or the fixed up version 7.0-2 > > "Weave a circle round him thrice, > > And close your eyes with holy dread, > > For he on honeydew hath fed, > > And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "kiriakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:22 PM > > Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 - Installation screams 'error not enough > > space in partition /" > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I just got a Mandrake 7.0 distribution from a computer magazine. It all > > > goes well up to the point that it asks me for the packages I want to > > > install. > > > > > > I had the disk auto-allocated, which gives me around 1409 Megs for the / > > > partition. I chose "expert" installation (I'm not an expert, just a > > > freak, hehe) and development type. After that point, the installation > > > gives me an error saying more or less that the packages I chose are 1180 > > > Megs in size and there's no space for all of them (like 1180 > 1409?) > > > but I could go on anyway, just I won't get all packages installed. I OK > > > this, to go on, and then I get a menu of package choices (Server, > > > Development, Games, etc.) I choose the absolute minimum, which is 1180 > > > Megs, and when I OK this too, I get an error that the .rpms could not be > > > installed because of no space in / partition. > > > > > > This is weird cause I restarted after I partitioned, so there shouldn't > > > be a problem for the installation to see the allocated space. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks in advance > > > GG
