Thx Eric using your suggested set up it worked beautifully...amazing how
much room it needed.
Now I can run free among the wee linux dwellers,
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Eric MC DECLERCK
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] installing LM7 from HD...help please
Michael Gano wrote:
>
> Getting:
> "An error occurred
> installation of rpms failed:
> installing package needs 555 MB on the /mnt/ filesystem." ???
>
> WHAT I'VE DONE
> no burner, so I ftped mandrake et al from the FTP server to my personal
> machine. Then...
>
> - I rawwrote the hd.img file to a floppy and booted.
> - Showed the mandrake directory.
> - Chose customized and remaining options.
> - (I've got 2 HDs in the computer...the plan being to load linux onto the
> blank one so...) I formatted a HD, giving it everything it wanted / mount
> point and swap with at least 1200 MB for the / . ...but to know avail. No
> matter what packages I choose or how small I set the size limit, I
continue
> to get the error above (and it's not always 555 but sometimes larger or
> smaller.)
>
> ???
> I appreciate any help in advance,
> Thx,
> Michael
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A full install need about 1.3G !!
All depends of your mount points.
What I did: (had the same problem)
/ (about 600-800M)
/usr (big one !!!! most of all, my case 3G)
/boot (32M, enough to put more diff. kernels)
/usr/local (about 600M, to preserve own data)
/home (depends of the nbr of users)
On my 2� HD reside:
There is 1 prim. partition = /
and 1 extended = /usr, /usr/local, /home
On my 1� HD :
1 prim. for windoooz
1 prim. for /boot (set it always as prim.)
1 swap about 256M
Eric
