Its gonna drive you crazy...thats what happened to me. do an expert install
then do the minimal between 176-300 or so
then install the rest by yourself. Its a pain but it worked. :-)
Kenny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric MC DECLERCK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] installing LM7 from HD...help please
> 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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