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Old 05-02-2008, 05:04 AM
Glyn Millington
 
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Default Re: Slack 12 + 20GB HDD: disk full during install?

Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Slack 12 on an old machine with 20 GB hdd/32 MB
> RAM. No matter how large I make /usr, the installation keeps giving a
> message like "cannot write to disk because disk is full". Currently
> the partitioning is / (100 MB), /usr (15 GB), /home ((5 GB). I've been
> trying to install Expert (leaving out X) and Full, but so far each
> time I get "disk full".
> Previously, I installed Slack 11 without a problem using a similar
> partitioning as above, but found out I needed a 2.6 kernel because of
> a WiFi adapter I want to try out.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?


Not really, but just a thought - did you format the partition as part of
the install? If not then Salckware may be trying to install on something
that IS full?


atb






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