On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:36:29 +0200, Huub wrote:

> 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?

Isn't it obvious? A 100Mb / partition is not nearly big enough. A lot of
things get installed in / (or in subdirs which come off of / ). I'd
suggest making / about 5G and reduce /usr to 10G. Problem solved.



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