Nothing in this world is certain except death & taxes so they say, I never used 7.0 but it was quickly updated because of problems (no personal experience) If you have cdr then burn a copy of 7.0-2 iso which can be found via Mandrake site-- lots of ftp sites/mirrors carry it, use a utility like Cuteftp or Getright that supports resuming, the image is approx 650+ , if you download to hard drive then use Rawrite to make hd bootdisk, turn off Pnp in Bios and go from there, if you burn a cd then turn off Pnp in Bios and reset boot option to Cd first and go from there, hope this is not too detailed and superfluous. "Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) ----- Original Message ----- From: "kiriakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 - Installation screams 'error notenough space in partition/" > It is 7.0, but do you know for sure that this bug has been fixed in > 7.0-2? Because I would like to have 7.0 running and upgrade it from > there. Or else I'd have to download the update I guess, and I don't know > what I should do in that case. I mean, where do I find and where do I > save the update, since my medium is a CD. > > And (attn: guy named root) how do I list a partition empty? I would > think it's already empty, I just created it > > GG > > Tony wrote: > > > > is this 7.0 or the fixed up version 7.0-2 > > "Weave a circle round him thrice, > > And close your eyes with holy dread, > > For he on honeydew hath fed, > > And drunk the milk of paradise." (The linux user) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "kiriakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:22 PM > > Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 - Installation screams 'error not enough > > space in partition /" > > > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I just got a Mandrake 7.0 distribution from a computer magazine. It all > > > goes well up to the point that it asks me for the packages I want to > > > install. > > > > > > I had the disk auto-allocated, which gives me around 1409 Megs for the / > > > partition. I chose "expert" installation (I'm not an expert, just a > > > freak, hehe) and development type. After that point, the installation > > > gives me an error saying more or less that the packages I chose are 1180 > > > Megs in size and there's no space for all of them (like 1180 > 1409?) > > > but I could go on anyway, just I won't get all packages installed. I OK > > > this, to go on, and then I get a menu of package choices (Server, > > > Development, Games, etc.) I choose the absolute minimum, which is 1180 > > > Megs, and when I OK this too, I get an error that the .rpms could not be > > > installed because of no space in / partition. > > > > > > This is weird cause I restarted after I partitioned, so there shouldn't > > > be a problem for the installation to see the allocated space. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks in advance > > > GG
