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Re: sarge netinst can fill up /v/cache/apt

Possibly, but I've not had enough time to properly investigate it. Indeed I had rebooted into the base install produce the aberrant situation. (However, I had to use the 2.6.10 pmac kernel from ppckernel.org to get it that far.) My setup is a 512MB partition for '/' which has var on it and a 5GB one for '/usr' and then others, i.e. not a partition for '/var'. Maybe this weekend, I can try it on a spare pair of partitions to test various situations out, though I'd prefer not to do an hour or so of downloading to find out the results. Ideas appreciated.
One other item, the installer when still booted from the cd doesn't like my legacy /usr/local partition since it wants to install over it though I cannot determine what is so important that it is installing there. So, I'd prefer not to have to reformat it when I install. A workaround is just to install without the partition and then fix everything after words. 

jeff

On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:


Jeff Green <jbgreen@frontiernet.net> writes:


Just a note to let developers know of my experience in doing the
netinst install (repeatedly, i.e. twice) filled up
/var/cache/apt/"something" causing the install to hang in such a way
that I had to go back to the very beginning of the install and do it
all over again. Got around it by moving that area to the larger /usr
partition and putting in a symlink to it. The install at least went to
the point that most got installed and configured. (XF86Config probs
now.)


That sounds like you are past the base installation from CD and the
reboot and doing the system installtion with some extra tasks (like X)
selected. At that point apt is being used which already does space
checking before downloading.

What isn't checked is the size required to install packages. So if you
are real close to the limit the downloading might fit but unpacking
uses some more space in /var and runs out of room. Could that be the case? 

MfG
        Goswin


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