In a galaxy not too far away, Eric G . Miller spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:18:21AM -0800: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:42AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) > wrote: > > Out of curiosity.... > > I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. > > The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die > > before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd > > bootable). I was using a partition like > > > > /boot primary 10MB > > /swap primary 32MB > > / primary 32MB > > /home logical 1000MB > > /usr logical 800MB > > /var logical 250MB > > > > I changed that now to > > > > /boot primary 10MB > > /swap primary 32MB > > / primary rest > > > > and the installation went smoothly. > > > > Now I'm just wondering what was wrong with what i assume is a wrong > > partitioning of my HD? > > I think the problem is the install routine need enough space for > /target/base_2_2.tgz *and* its unpacked contents. This leads to needing > more space for '/' than you will probably ever need again. I know I had > the same problem using a 50MB '/', but if I made it bigger, say 100MB > (if I recall), it worked. I didn't see any documentation about what the > minimum disk space requirement is for a floppy install. Yes, i think your / partition is too small for the above reason. last time i installed potato i used about 65MB for root and it worked...
/stefan. > > -- > Eric G. Miller <[email protected]> > "Time is Free" > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
