Subject: Re: problem with /usr/sbin while installing on a 5400
From: Scott Parrish (parrisc@mindspring.com)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 17:54:06 MDT
>Hello !
>
>It is the 4th time I try to install Yellow dog Linux and I have always the
>same problem : the /usr/sbin directory is missing (while it exists on
>/mnt/usr/sbin) and that causes /usr/sbin/mouseconfig to fail, providing the
>error "An error occured during the step 'Configure mouse' of the install."
>
>I have a 5400/180 with 32 Mo RAM. I use the cdrom to install.
>I've already got the last ramdisk.image.gz on the ftp serveur.
>
>My partitions are :
>hda5 Apple_HFS 1,0G
>hda6 root 500M
>hda7 swap 48M
>hda8 usr 300M
>hda9 home 177,5M
>
Your usr partition is too small...the YDL installer is sticking /usr/sbin in
/mnt becuase /mnt is not on the /usr partition (It's on / "root").
The solution would be to repartition the drive or switch partitions
between root and usr...
Scott
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