On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:47:55 +0000, bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Monday 31 December 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote:
>odd, since you must have installed in the first place?
>what is your partition scheme, can you tar up your home directory and put it 
>somewhere else (a windrive?) and do a format and reinstall?
>alternatively you could describe in more detail what errors you get on boot 
>up and try to fix it without reinstalling - though how much help I would be 
>at this i don't know!

I think the problem resides in the fact that the installer determines the
space needed for writing the selected packages and then checks for enough free
space on the HD. Regardless if there is something to upgrade. I can also
imagine that there's quite some space needed for temp files...

Paul

>> It tells me I don't have enough space (hard drive space) for
>> installation or upgrade.. It's an 800 meg hard drive..
>>
>> Eric

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