10 GIG partition not big enough to contain a minimal instalation
Subject says it all. I am trying to install SuSE 9.3 Pro. I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here. I have libranet 2.8.1 and can install a minimal system on a 400 MEG partition. Any suggestions, still want to try 9.3. You can download libranet 2.8.1 at libranet.com for free and it is a debian system, which uses apt-get, a better system than rpm. I know you can get apt-get for rpm, don't want to start a flame war. jozien
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:18 am, Joe Zien wrote:
I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here.
Something is wrong, just doing a df on my work machine, my root partition is exactly 10 Gig, but I'm only using 7. That's the default install, with extras but nowhere near all packages. (Took about 3/4 of an hour from a reasonably fast DVD) On the cluster nodes Suse9.3Pro let me install (a slightly customised versuin) into 4 Gig. Maybe poke around in the partitioning part of yast and make sure you really have 10 Gig?? -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox, but after that....
Michael James wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:18 am, Joe Zien wrote:
I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here.
Something is wrong, just doing a df on my work machine, my root partition is exactly 10 Gig, but I'm only using 7. That's the default install, with extras but nowhere near all packages. (Took about 3/4 of an hour from a reasonably fast DVD)
On the cluster nodes Suse9.3Pro let me install (a slightly customised versuin) into 4 Gig.
Maybe poke around in the partitioning part of yast and make sure you really have 10 Gig??
I just added knoppix 3.8.2 on /dev/hdb13 and kubuntu 5.04 on /dev/hdb14 and /dev/hdb15 with no problems. All three are 4GIG partitions. Below is the output of cfdisk and fdisk -l on /dev/hdb: # cfdisk /dev/hdb cfdisk 2.11z Disk Drive: /dev/hdb Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------- hdb1 Boot Primary NTFS [^A] 10684.64 hdb2 Primary Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 5247.73 hdb5 Logical Linux swap 1052.84 hdb6 Logical Linux ext3 6358.15 hdb7 Logical Linux ext3 5000.98 hdb8 Logical Linux ext3 5000.98 hdb9 Logical Linux ext3 3002.23 hdb10 Logical Linux ext3 8603.65 hdb11 Logical Linux ext3 7600.16 hdb12 Logical Linux ext3 3997.49 hdb13 Logical Linux ReiserFS 3997.49 hdb14 Logical Linux ext3 [/] 3997.49 hdb15 Logical Linux ext3 [/] 3997.49 Pri/Log Free Space 11482.50 # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 1299 10434186 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdb2 1300 1937 5124735 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdb3 1938 8333 51375870 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 1938 2065 1028128+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 2066 2838 6209091 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 2839 3446 4883728+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 3447 4054 4883728+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb9 4055 4419 2931831 83 Linux /dev/hdb10 4420 5465 8401963+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb11 5466 6389 7421998+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb12 6390 6875 3903763+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb13 6876 7361 3903763+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb14 7362 7847 3903763+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb15 7848 8333 3903763+ 83 Linux free space 8334 9729 11482050 There is defenitely 11GIG space on the end of /dev/hdb jozien
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 04:18 pm, Joe Zien wrote:
Subject says it all. I am trying to install SuSE 9.3 Pro. I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here. I have libranet 2.8.1 and can install a minimal system on a 400 MEG partition. Any suggestions, still want to try 9.3. You can download libranet 2.8.1 at libranet.com for free and it is a debian system, which uses apt-get, a better system than rpm. I know you can get apt-get for rpm, don't want to start a flame war.
jozien
You have a problem somewhere. 5 or 6 GB should be plenty for a normal (quite full) install.
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 04:18 pm, Joe Zien wrote:
Subject says it all. I am trying to install SuSE 9.3 Pro. I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here. I have libranet 2.8.1 and can install a minimal system on a 400 MEG partition. Any suggestions, still want to try 9.3. You can download libranet 2.8.1 at libranet.com for free and it is a debian system, which uses apt-get, a better system than rpm. I know you can get apt-get for rpm, don't want to start a flame war.
jozien
I had no problems installing to an 8 gig drive.
James W.
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 16:18, Joe Zien wrote:
Subject says it all. I am trying to install SuSE 9.3 Pro. I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here. I have libranet 2.8.1 and can install a minimal system on a 400 MEG partition. Any suggestions, still want to try 9.3. You can download libranet 2.8.1 at libranet.com for free and it is a debian system, which uses apt-get, a better system than rpm. I know you can get apt-get for rpm, don't want to start a flame war.
Maybe something is wrong with your drive or interface? df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 13G 8.1G 4.0G 68% / /dev/hda1 46M 13M 31M 31% /boot /dev/hda5 8.1G 633M 7.4G 8% /home I've got just about everything in KDE and GNOME installed, along with all the games, office/productivity software, graphics, publishing, fonts, and most development stuff installed in SuSE 9.2 and just over 8G used.
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