Re: Dselect Freeking ...
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alvaro Reguly wrote:
> It is one single partition with 2gb free ... really weird ...
>
> > How big is your /tmp partition? (or is it /var/tmp?)
> >
> >
>
> > At 09:12 PM 9/17/1998 -0300, you wrote:
> > >Hi there ..
> > >
> > >I got a dselect freek (don't know where that came from) last week,
> > >I was trying to upgrade (proposed upgrades), when I got to step 3
> > >(Install) dselect freeks (nice ANSI there :)) complaing about hard
> > >disk space, but the thing is I have 2gb+ free space ..
> > >
> > >Method is FTP.
> > >
> > >What do you think about that ?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Just a guess, but do you have one partition that has 2 gig free, or do
> > you
> > have more than one partition, and one of those has 2 gigs free? If the
> > latter, it may be that the downloaded files are being saved to a smaller
> > partition.
> >
> >
>
>
> Alvaro Reguly
> ====================
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> Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
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df shows 2gb free?
Are you running dselect as root? If not, perhaps your permissions are too
limiting.
Do any of the packages get downloaded, or does it spit up blood
immediately upon entering the install option?
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