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> From: Chun-wah Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] installation problem: no enough disk space
> Date: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 1:48 PM
>
> 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:
First of all, Mandrake is optimized for INTEL chips. So it may crash or not
work properly with AMD chips.
> (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
Try and make these partitions.
/
/usr
/home
If you ever have to reinstall again, your /home directory will be fine and
won't be reformatted.
Jeremy
