On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Steve Wainstead wrote:
> Hello, I have been using 6.0 since its release and it has made me very
> productive.
>
> I picked up a copy of 7.0 at the Mandrake booth at LinuxWorldExpo; I
> tried to do an upgrade using a CDROM install.
>
> The upgrade fails, giving me an error message that "/mnt" needs 37M for
> the RPM packages. I mv'd /mnt to /usr/mnt (which has two gigs
> available), made a symlink /mnt -> /usr/mnt, and tried again.
bad move it really means your / which is /mnt while installing
> This time I got an error that /mnt needed another 36M for the install.
>
> I'm probably overlooking something obvious... the CDROM is a
> "pre-release" of 7.0, but the gentleman at the booth said that it was
> the same as the final version except for th DiskDrake tool.
>
> I'm going to try once more to boot off the CDROM (instead of a floppy
> boot) to see if I can get it to work..
>
> thx
> sw
>
Just clear some space out of /tmp and maybe /var/tmp, and you should be ok
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