No question, actually. Just a bug report, or just wanted to know if anyone had ever encountered this but me.
So, if you install MDK and set the / partition under 70 MBytes, the package install several steps down will barf. Even though you've made all the other partitions incredibly big and / will only contain 45 MB (or less) when it's all over. -- j Jason Guidry wrote: > Jeremy Mereness wrote: > > Just something I've seen in Mandrake Install (DrakInstall?) over the > > past several releases of Mandrake. > > > > There needs to be an intelligent check on the size of the partitions. If > > "/" is too small, say under 80 MBytes, you will get strange errors down > > the road when packages start loading. Packages just fail, no > > explanation, and you are forced to start all over again. > > > > Is there a question here? If you could be more specific, perhaps we > could provide a workaround, but I have not experienced this and I've > done more partitioning than I care to remember (since 7.0). Wouldn't > this be _less_ of a problem if you partition with a /usr partition? > > maybe i'm just confused. I am, after all, on vacation. > > -- > Jason Guidry > http://www.gmaestro.org
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