Re: iso and disk space problem

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 17/08/14 05:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 17/08/14 04:24 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > I downloaded an ISO of another Linux distro to check it out - burned
> > is to a CD and booted from it. Runs fine, but a little slowly,
> > so I thought about grml-rescue which allows grub to boot an ISO from
> > the HD. Runs fine, but immediately ran into trouble updating the distro
> > when it ran out of disk space. Seems the limit is the size of the
> > original ISO. Is there any way of increasing this? It's about 700kb
> > right now which doesn't allow much room for anything.
> Not familiar with grml-rescue but could you use the hd to mount some of
> the directories off root, such as /var and /tmp?

   Good question :) I'll have to investigate this possibility-I guess I 
could try to setup some symlinks. I DL isomaster to have a look at the 
iso itself but not knowing anything about iso's are setup none of it 
seemed to make sense to me. I may have to breakdown and resize my 
partitions to make some room to actually install it. I haven't as I am 
not at all sure I want to keep it. That's why I was looking for a cheap 
and dirty way of trying it out.


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