Mark and All:
Thanks for your reply; On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Mark Lane wrote: > First of all. Is there a reason you aren't installing 7.3? 7.1 is pretty > old now and 7.2 and 7.3 are much more stable. I already have 7.1. Newer versions would either require a further cash outlay or too much download time. Besides, once I downloaded it I still wouldn't have a clue as to how to install it. 7.1 is running on a machine of mine at home and it ran on this machine before a disk crash last August. It may not be the newest, flashiest, sexiest version around, but it does work. I just need to learn enough about it to make it work well, at least until I can justify an additional cash outlay to the spouse. > Second. If you are running out of space on install, you are going to > want to show us how big each partition is. "fstab" doesn't give that > information and it could be that you haven't left enough room on one of > your many partitions. No chance. Here are the stats reported by PartitionMagic after my latest attempt to install Linux (Linux partitions only) in Mb. (Note: 2 disks) Partition Size Used Unused /usr 4141.7 2129.1 2012.6 /home 4141.7 65.3 4076.4 /tmp 4141.7 65.3 4076.4 /var 4141.7 109.2 4032.5 /scratch4 4133.9 65.1 4068.8 swap 125.5 0 125.5 /boot 31.5 4.8 26.7 / 2283.7 100.9 2182.8 swap 126.0 0 126.0 > Also lots of people make the mistake of making /home really big and not > leaving enough room for /usr and /usr/local/. I find that if you install > a lot of apps that /usr can get very big and have seen systems where > /usr usage is much bigger than /home. (Especially if they install lots > of Loki games in /usr/local) Thanks for the tip. As you can see above, there's 2 Gb available for /usr and its subdirectories. I've not installed any applications yet because I can't even get the operating system to boot properly. Besides, I'm not the video game type. :-) Peace, health, wisdom and wealth. Live long and prosper. Stan Schultz Techno-Geek wannabe Home: (403) 230-1911 Work: (403) 220-8570 FAX: (403) 270-8928
