Martin Wilck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am new to this list but a rather experienced Mdk user. > For some reason I can't seem to get a login on Mandrakeforum, so I'll > start posting the bugs I think I've found here. > It's probably the better place anyway.
Yes it is. Forum is more for "newbies" I'd say. Hardcore is here :-). > Here is no. 1: > > I had two failed installs on my machine because the root device (/dev/root > mounted on /) has no space left. > > Ways to reproduce: > 1) Use LVM and 4 different partitions with 4 different journaling > filesystems -> Mounting partitions fails because insmod ext3 fails > because /tmp/ext3.o has 0 bytes. I was able to overcome this by > manually deleting stuff from /tmp, but only until the next step, > where I couldn't find anything to delete anymore. Can you send to this list the report.bug? to get it, when you experience the problem, switch to console 2, put a dos floppy in floppy drive, and type "bug" -> it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests us > OK, 4 different journaling filesystems is crazy, but we were told > to do crazy things with beta4. And people may want to do this > for testing the filesystem performance. > > 2) Use LVM but only ext3. Installation proceeds up to the network > installation step, (I have two ethernet cards, 8139too + tulip, > plus an ISDN adapter). > Loading the second ethernet module fails for the same reason as before. Same as 1 concerning report.bug. > Sorry if this is well known. Not to my knowledge.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
