Klause yes looking at 'df' it seems the dvd did not leave 200M+. Perhaps you may leave that limit off the next version. For example I only wanted to inclued some instructions to access encrypted LVM's and other personal notes to use knoppix as a rescue disk. All of which would take up very much less than 200M of personal space. I agree with your limit to allow aptitude to work. Perhaps we could all it to find a place in swap? I purchased the flash disk knowing knoppix would fit with some allowance. And 4G is a common size.
On Aug 10, 2010 5:19 PM, "Klaus Knopper" <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
Hello Daryl,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:17:10PM -0400, Daryl Styrk wrote: > I've installed 6.2.1 from DVD to ...
If there is less than 200MB free, the question will not appear. This
200MB limit is really an arbitrary value in my initrd startscript, since
I assumed that if using an overlay, the user would expect it being
possible to at least run aptitude update without an "out-of-disk-space"
error message.
However, you can still create an overlay file manually with the size of
the entire remaining space (max. 4GB per file on FAT32):
1. mount the KNOPPIX flashdisk, for example at /media/sda1
2. create a file:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/sda1/KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img bs=1M
(The command will exit when the flashdisk is full).
3. Format the overlay as ext2 virtual disk:
mke2fs -F -m0 /media/sda1/KNOPPIX/knoppix-data.img
Now, the overlay should be detected and used on next boot.
Regards
-Klaus