Subject: Re: Yeller Dog finally installing!
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 08:35:32 MST
This is similar to my experience, and the result of helping a few others.
There are issues when installing on smallish partitions. The actual
issues & remedies are a little vague, but my experience suggests the
following guidelines:
The temp files can be much larger during install than in regular use; if
you create many partitions then it may be more difficult to size each
one right for install even though your size choices are reasonable for
actual day-to-day/intended use.
As a general rule, if you are having trouble (getting the "fix this
manually" message) I would try to create one large partition as root and
run the installer. If it works when a 4+ partition scheme (eg:
boot/root/swap and /home, /usr, and /var) did not, my guess is that
large temp files are the culprit.
According to Debian docs, installation creates large files at /var (log
partition).
There may also be temp files in other directories; I don't really know
enough about it to say for sure.
So, with one large partition some kind of base install (at a minimum)
should work when you can't seem to get it on the box.
If that DOES work, then playing with partition sizes for a
multipartition install should eventually pay off. You may find you need
a little more space this way than with just a bool/root/swap partition
scheme.
On Wednesday, January 2, 2002, at 11:06 PM, Doug Philips wrote:
>> The moral is that if you want Yeller Dog, make sure that you have
>> plenty
>> of RAM and disk space. A puny 1 gig of disk space just ain't gonna
>> do
>> it even for a Base Install.
>
> I was able to do a Base Install on a 7600/132 with 48Meg Ram and 1.2
> Gig disk (of which 250 is MacOS8.6, 128Mb is swap, and the rest is one
> monolithic Linux partition), so even with 800Mb of disk I had no
> trouble (and room to spare).
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