Once more: Installation failure
Hallo,
I posted this message last week. Because I didn't got any answer I
try to give more details in the end of my posting.
I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-).
Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried
to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem seemed
to be the following:
I have a partition mounted on /var of about 80MB. To download
the packages temporaryly they were stored somewhere in
/var/lib/anywhere. To get enough space I mounted /var/lib
on another computer (per NFS) with more than 1GB free space.
But dselect (and freinds) seems to ignore this space and stops
by saying "Not enough memory" (This are not the correct words --
ask me if I should try it again to get the correct answer.).
So I downloaded all files to /var/lib/debian and tried the
method "mounted disk". But I also failed and I am wondering
what this errormessage would mean.
When selecting "Install packages" I get the following:
dpkg: error processing /path_to_package/package.deb
failed to rmdir/unlink `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci': File exists
After a number of this messages dpkg stops caused by to many errors.
What the hell should be the reason for such a message. I tried
to set all files in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci and the directory itself
by chmod 777 * but nothing helps.
May be I missed the following special environment: In the university
we have some PC's with very small diskspace ( < 200MB ) all working
in a Novell network. But it's to less for Linux :-). Because we have
an HP workstation with relatively less trafic I thought we can use it
as Linux fileserver per NFS. The administrator of this workstation
(who isn't using Linux himselves) created a user `linux' on this
workstation with the homedirectory /usr/local/linux. He added in
/etc/exports:
/usr/local/linux -access=[my.own.machine],root=[my.own.machine]
so that I have access to this directroy being root on my Linux PC.
I created /usr/local/linux/usr and /usr/local/linux/var/lib and
added in my /etc/fstab two lines to mount /usr and /var/lib, respectively.
Than I tared the /usr-tree, installed after installing the Debian
install disks and untared it on /usr/local/linux/usr. I need to
use /usr/local/linuc/var/lib to store the amount of *.deb files.
I hope this additional information gives a hint to solve my problem.
I'm in serious trouble. Please help.
Thanks for all help.
Andreas.
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