Re: Error messages
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 09:26:25PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 20:52, I. Middlemas wrote:
> > Here is what the partition table indicates:
> > /dev/hda1 /target/boot Linux native 5.12 MB
> > /dev/hda2 swap Linux swap 5.12 MB
> > /dev/hda3 /target Linux native 5.12 MB
Your root disk is going to need to be more than 5 MB. I suspect you
meant 512 MB?
The basic installation for woody requires 110MB, for potato
somewhat less, maybe 75MB.
> > /dev/hda4 - not available - DOS extended (not sure
> > what happened here)
> > /dev/hda5 /target/usr Linux native 167.68 MB
> >
> > When I get to the "Install the Operating System Kernal and Modules" step, I
> > get the following two dialog boxes (usually on the second driver disk):
> >
> > Error
> > Error writing to output file: Success
> > Continue
>
> I suspect this means you ran out of space on some partition or other.
> When the error box occurs, try going to the second virtual terminal (ie
> Alt-F2) and running "df".
>
Yeah, what he said. df -h for readings in MB.
> A floppy drive problem is possible, but seems fairly unlikely if you
> have already read in three disks successfully by the time it happens.
> Bad disks are also a possibility, but if you have tried fresh disks that
> also doesn't seem all that hot a contender.
>
> p.
>
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