Re: Install of YDL 2.1 on Power Center Pro nothing but frustration


Subject: Re: Install of YDL 2.1 on Power Center Pro nothing but frustration
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 08:54:19 MST


Having a second look at your partition scheme, it appears that both your
/root and /var partitions are a little on the small side (for temp files
during install, they are probably quite reasonable for a running system).
Some things you could try:

Your /usr and /home partitions are quite generous. You could try to resize
other partitions larger by making these smaller (1G each should be fine,
but even a few hundred MB "borrowed" from one of these would help).

You could make /var at the end of your partition map, and install without
a swap space. This would allow about 550MB for /var during install; later
you could recreate the /var and /swap partitions more to your liking and
move files/mount accordingly.

You could install without a defined /var partition, which will make temp
files load on your /root partition. The /root partition can be made larger
without affecting your choices for /usr and /home.

You could create a large /var partition on another physical drive or
virtual partition and use it for install, then later move relevant files
to your intended /var partition of 300MB and reformat the "old" large /var
partition. For example, you could reformat it to HFS under Linux and then
create a HFS+ partition from it when mounted in MacOS by using the "erase
disk" command rather than drive setup.

Not sure, but /root might be a little on the small side, a little extra
might solve some problems during install.

Finally, it really depends on how much stuff you choose when you install.
Going for the most basic (no X no Gnome, etc) will help getting the kernel
etc on your system; you can add other packages in a second install step.

On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 07:51 AM, Gavin Hemphill wrote:

> Your problem is the way you have the disk partitioned. Yellowdog uses
> space (quite a large amount of space) in the /tmp directory during the
> install. You might try doing the install with just a single large root
> partition and a swap partition. I think you'll find it works then.
> G++
>
> Marcus Hall wrote:
>
>> I've downloaded the ISO image from a number of different mirrors and
>> burned it on both two different pc's and two ... Here is my disk
>> configuration 10MB boot, 256MB swap, 200MB root, 2.5Gig usr, 300MB var,
>> 1Gig home. I might add that this configuration worked on the Power Tower
>> Pro last year. I just don't understand why I can't get this install to
>> work. If anyone has gotten YDL 2.0 or 2.1 installed on a Power Center
>> Pro please let me know how you did it. By the ...



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