Seems you ran out of space on your root partition.
Don't forget, everything you don't put in a separate partition goes in your
/
Ok, I'll try to make this a step by step.
First of all, don't use disk druid to partition your disk, it is a question
of taste, but once you get used to fdisk, you'll stick to it. It is way
easyer to manipulate.
You have a 4.3gig HD, and have 1gig for linux. With 64megs of ram, you'll
want about 90megs of swap.
When setup offers you the different partitioning tools, select fdisk. First
type p to have a look at your current partition table. You should see your
3,4 gig windows partition, marked as fat or vfat-win95. If that is all you
have, skip the *
* If you have left overs from other installs, get rid of them. Note the
numbers of the partitions, and delete every partition except your windows
partition. To do this, type d and then the number of the partition you want
to delete
To create the swap partition, type n folowed by the number of the partition
you want to create. Type 1 for the number and accept the default start
cylinder. enter +90M for the size.
Next you will have to change the partition type. Linux swap is type 83
(double check though by pressing t and looking at the list, I could be wrong
for the number). Enter the number of the partition you want to change the
type for, and the type of partition you want to change it into.
Next, create a / partition. Make this big enough. Unless you want to run a
server, you can put all linux in one partition. Ideal is to separate /home
and /usr from your / partition, that way, you can keep them untouched in
case of a full reinstall.
With one gig, I'd create about 700 megs for / and the rest for /home
So, press n again, choose the partition number you want to create (you'll be
at '3' now) and accept the default start cylinder. Type +700M for the size
and leave the type untouched
Press n again, choose the partition number (4) and accept the default start
cylinder again. This time, also accept the default end cylinder.
Have a last look at the partition table pressing p and if all seems OK press
w to write the new partitions to disk.
Fdisk wil exit and you can continue the install. Next diskdruid will pop up
to ask you for the mounting points of your disk.
If you want acces to your dos partition, select it and give it a logical
name, ex: mount it under /dos
the 700 meg partition should recieve / as mounting point, and the 200 meg
partition should get /home. Don't mount the swap partition.
Exit diskdruid and this time install should just be fine.
Hope I was clear with this, I know what I meant, just don't know if I wrote
it down in an understandable way ;o)
Patrick
Brussels
Belgium
----- Original Message -----
From: Chun-wah Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 8:48 PM
Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
> hi
>
> I have installed mandrake 6.0 in my AMD6-2 300 PC with 64MB RAM and 4.3G
> hard drive. I have tried making 1004MB linux ext2 partition (for path /
> ) and 70MB swap: 1) by partition magic under win 98; and 2) by disk
> druid from empty space during installation. however, in either case, I
> got the following error msgs:
>
> (after choosing packages)
>
> error msg: You don't appear to have enough disk space to install the
> packages you've selected. you need more space on the following
> filesystems:
> Mount point space needed
> / 290M
>
> I choose "Install anyway". then all packages are installed.
>
> (configuration starts)
>
> error msg: An error occured during step "configure mouse" of the
> installlation.
>
> then I cannot go further. if I jump to the end by clicking "menu", then
> I obtain:
>
> error msg: I cannnot run /mnt//sbin/mkinitrd:
> No such file or directory.
>
> ----
>
> I have looked for the cdrom, FAQs, manuals, updates and even the redhat
> 6.0 updates sites and installed the new boot diskette (from mandrake
> site). but all efforts fail. if you have any idea, pls let me know.
>
> thank you in advance.
>
> --
> chun wah
>
>
