Re: 100 meg disk

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

geordie wrote:
> 
> hi
> 
> i recently installed slink on a compaq 486 laptop w/ 4 megs ram and a 100
> meg hdd.  dselect downloaded a _few_ packages for me, but during the
> installation process the disk became full.  i tried using dselect to
> remove unwanted packages but it doesn't work beyond the first menu
> anymore.  when i try to get to 'select' it returns "dselect: failed to
> write status record about 'lib-apache-mode-auth-sys' to
> '/var/log/dpkg/status': No space left on device"
> 
> this sucks
> 
> i've tried w/out success to find the place where all the stuff dselect
> downloaded is stored so i could just remove it and start again.
> 
> i'm thinking about reinstalling
> 
> any less drastic solutions?
> 
In addition to what's been said, check out the old log files in
/var/log.  Surely there's some of them you can get rid of...
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