Well, I've learned to be rather careful using words like "only" and "all" without some sort of escape clause, since it takes only a single exception to disprove the case. However, running out of room is the case must of us are familiar with that would trigger that error (as should be obvious given you had essentially three people suggest the same cause), and the usual reason for that is that one is extracting to a location that didn't have the free space one expected -- because it's not the location one had in mind.
abyway, i am suing BLAg to read this email. also downloading "Linux
From Scratch LiveCD". tomorrow morning i will try Gentoo.
Another possibility in the same vein... Are you sure you created your partitions correctly? IOW, you didn't make it say 40960 KB (40 MB) instead of 40960000-odd KB (40 GB), right? Again, the output from df should make such a mistake immediately clear, if you did.
partitons were correct. damn-sure :-)
Yet another variant on the theme would be if you messed up fstab, assigning / to the small partition you intended for /boot, or something like that.
i havn't even touched fstab.
It was in an interview I read on one of the computer mag sites. I used to include the link as well, but decided that was a bit heavy for a sig, so don't now. However, a bit of quick googling points to this from late 2004: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
hey thanks BUDDY ;-)
It's well worth reading, both on the freedom theme and because much of the material discussed, the freeing of Solaris and Java, is just as topical now if not more so than it was then, what with Java being GPLv2ed, and some hints coming out of Sun that it /might/ actually consider relicensing Solaris under the GPLv3 if it likes the look of the final license. What with Linux staying hard GPLv2 and the opposition of the Linux kernel hackers to GPLv3, if Solaris /does/ go GPLv3 along with most of the GNU software family, and with Tivoizing and the possible fallout from the MS/Novell deal, things could quickly get /very/ (as in /extremely/) interesting in the world of freedom software. (I had to delete several paragraphs and force myself to be content with only the above, or this could easily become a multi-hundred line post on that alone. =8^)
If you have saved the "deleted" lines, send them to me. i want to read them & If you have some time , create a BLOG of that "multi-hundred line post BUT 1st email them to me, i will feel happy to have a draft version 8-) -- arnuld http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ -- [email protected] mailing list
