Is it safe just to delete everything in the tmp dirs?
I never did it because I was worried that something might be using it at the
time...
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Axalon Bloodstone
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 11:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] /mnt lacks disk space for upgrade?
>
>
> 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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