Dodged:
I used Gparted again, reformatting the half of the flashdrive that had the
standard Trisquel on it and then using the
"Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.8.exe" to install the Trisquel Mini iso
instead. After installation, I could run "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo
apt-get upgrade" without incident. There were lots of files to download and
install, but the upgrade process did not try to fill up the available space;
it stuck to its promise to download ca. 400MB and then use ca. 40MB more
space.
That's in stark contrast to my experience described at the beginning of this
thread.
Why ?
