Michael Gano wrote:
> 
> Getting:
>                "An error occurred
>           installation of rpms failed:
>  installing package needs 555 MB on the /mnt/ filesystem."  ???
> 
> WHAT I'VE DONE
> no burner, so I ftped mandrake et al from the FTP server to my personal
> machine. Then...
> 
>  - I rawwrote the hd.img file to a floppy and booted.
>  - Showed the mandrake directory.
>  - Chose customized and remaining options.
>  - (I've got 2 HDs in the computer...the plan being to load linux onto the
> blank one so...) I formatted a HD, giving it everything it wanted / mount
> point and swap with at least 1200 MB for the / . ...but to know avail. No
> matter what packages I choose or how small I set the size limit, I continue
> to get the error above (and it's not always 555 but sometimes larger or
> smaller.)
> 
> ???
> I appreciate any help in advance,
> Thx,
> Michael
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A full install need about 1.3G !!
All depends of your mount points.
What I did:  (had the same problem)
/       (about 600-800M)
/usr    (big one !!!! most of all, my case 3G)
/boot   (32M, enough to put more diff. kernels)
/usr/local      (about 600M, to preserve own data)
/home   (depends of the nbr of users)           
On my 2° HD reside:
There is 1 prim. partition = /
and 1 extended = /usr, /usr/local, /home
On my 1° HD : 
1 prim. for windoooz
1 prim. for /boot       (set it always as prim.)
1 swap about 256M
Eric


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