Hi, On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:43:58AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > from irc: > > < Natureshadow> 78 GiB reserved for "debianfreespace" > < Natureshadow> And /var only 5.2 GiB > < h01ger> Natureshadow: maaaaaaaaaaaaybe put that in the bug? i know, ranting on irc is fun, but.... > < h01ger> and then you could also resize /var during installing... > < h01ger> debian-edu-autofsresize will do the job nicely and is documented Resizing the partitions during installation in the /target chroot works. On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 08:01:34PM +0100, Wolfgang Schweer wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 05:19:01PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: > > I spent two days trying to install Debian Edu (combined server) in a > > virtual machine. I started with 100 GiB hard disk, then tried 150 GiB, > > and finally 220 GiB. The LTSP chroot installation always fails with no > > space left in /opt/var/cache/apt. > > > > Installing Debain Edu is not possible. > > I was unable to reproduce it (recommended 'desktop=lxde' setting, see manual). > > I figure you used 'desktop=kde' (default kernel command line entry, common for > all profiles); in this single case LTSP installation fails reproducibly. OK. I read the manual (again) and do find a short note that lxde should be used for LTSP, but what you write here sounds like more than a simple recommendation. Maybe the manual should be clearer about that (the note is also very well hidedn, IMHO - the paragraph is about changing the desktop environment from the default, so I'd skip reading it if I don't care changing the default). > In the past I've tested also this case taking into account that reading a > manual isn't fun for most people and thus will simply hit return; back then > the KDE variant used to work as well, enough space was left. OK. But really - we should absolutely test the installer as it comes out of the box. I really think most people will want to use it that way. > > Now, the netinstall ISO image being outdated and a lot of updated packages > getting installed after point release 9.4, /var/cache/apt/archives is filled > up and about 100 MiB space is missing. > > (As LTSP mounts the server Apt cache and arch=i386 is the LTSP default, a whole > bunch of unneeded packages plus the updated ones show up.) Oh. Sorry, I missed the bit about the differing archs! > > That said, a simple workaround is (if someone really wants KDE for LTSP > clients): > > After the Debian installer reported the LTSP menu item as failed: > > (1) Activate a Debian installer shell. > (2) Run 'rm target/opt/ltsp -rf' > (3) Run 'rm target/var/cache/apt/archive/*_amd64.deb' > (4) Go back to the installer gui. > (5) Choose the LTSP menu item again. > > One could use an even simpler solution: > Once the LTSP changeroot installation has started, do steps (1) and (3); the > installation will run without issues. > > As far as Buster is concerned, the cache issue won't show up as the LTSP chroot > arch will be the same as the server one. Great! Cheers, Nik
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