Starting with an 8GB flash disk, I formatted it fat32 and then used Gparted
(on another Trisquel 7 flash drive that is working OK) to split it into a
pair of roughly 4GB partitions, one formatted fat32 and the other ext3. Then
I used "Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.8.exe" in my *inXP laptop to extract
and install "trisquel_7.0_i686.iso" into the ext3 partition (which the
installer reformatted fat32 anyway). All OK so far. I even used "Add/Remove
Appplications" to poke a few additional goodies in there. The installer will
not use more than 4GB of that 8GB flash drive, so the extra steps outlined
above put the "waste space" to use for storing data needed for various
purposes.
Now comes the puzzler: Next step was to use "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo
apt-get upgrade" to bring the installation up to date. At the start, the
update wanted to download ca. 350MB, which it said would use up another 75MB
of disk space. "OK" sez I; let's do it.
After the download had finished, and just as the installation process was
starting, I checked how much space was left: ca. 1GB. A couple of hours
later, Trisquel informs me that my computer is full. At last sighting, the
upgrade was still unpacking language files and help files ... Every language
known to the Trisquel community. More help than I'll ever know how to find.
Fast forward ... I'm on my third try now. I have done all this two and a half
times, and I'm curious: How much space is there in this Trisquel partition ?
I check: There's 1 GB of space and 22MB of files, according to the
"properties" button applied to the "Computer" in Places.
While all this was going on, the second partition, still fat32, has a bunch
of image and video files that I put there and which consume about 2GB, and
they're all just fine and unblemished.
Gparted tells me there's still two, ca. 4GB partitions. They're both fat32;
The boot partition (3.99GB) is mounted at /cdrom and the data partition
(3.48GB) is mounted at /media/trisquel/4790-C5E3. There's an additional "lba"
flag on the boot partition. I've got 1.49GB of free space in the boot
partition into which the upgrade files have to fit.
Therefore, according to Gparted, sudo apt-get upgrade should have oodles of
space into which to download and unpack 350MB of upgrade files.
However, in /media, there are /media/cdrom (aas well as
/media/trisquel/4790-C5E3 with the pix and videos):
/media/cdrom/casper
/media/cdrom/casper-rw
/media/cdrom/dists
/media/cdrom/isolinux
/media/cdrom/LEEME.TXT
/media/cdrom/license.txt
/media/cdrom/md5sum.txt
/media/cdrom/pool
/media/cdrom/preseed
/media/cdrom/README.TXT
/media/cdrom/Uni-USB-Installer-Copying.txt
/media/cdrom/Uni-USB-Installer-Readme.txt
/media/cdrom/uui
and in /cdrom, there's
/cdrom/casper
/cdrom/casper-rw
/cdrom/dists
/cdrom/isolinux
/cdrom/LEEME.TXT
/cdrom/license.txt
/cdrom/md5sum.txt
/cdrom/pool
/cdrom/preseed
/cdrom/README.TXT
/cdrom/Uni-USB-Installer-Copying.txt
/cdrom/Uni-USB-Installer-Readme.txt
/cdrom/uui.
Which may actually be OK, as they're both the same file system ...
But what am I doing wrong with sudo apt-get upgrade ?
