Subject: Re: Install problem with 9500/200 and Xwindows
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Fri Mar 24 2000 - 16:57:55 MST
It may be failing because you're out of disk space on /usr - I would
suggest using your 500mb partition for / and your 1.2gb (I assume it's
not 1.2mb :P) partition for /usr. Try running the "df" command to see
how much free space you have on /usr. Here is what I have:
[root@laura /root]# cd /
[root@laura /]# df -k
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 4031422 1093979 2728860 29% /
/dev/hda5 2043247 1307376 735871 64% /mnt/macvol
[root@laura /]# du -cks *
5406 bin
10942 boot
108 dev
2020 etc
34665 home
14215 lib
12 lost+found
1304361 mnt
du: proc/644/fd/4: No such file or directory
0 proc
17873 root
4820 sbin
31 tmp
926719 usr
77092 var
2398264 total
As you can see I just have one partition for linux, which is not really
a good idea. I have a fairly stock 1.1 installation (with kernel
source), and my /usr needs 927mb and everything else totals 167mb. (The
huge amount for /mnt is my MacOS volume.)
Jim Fitch wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> Maybe someone has seen this before. I am a newbe to linux, trying to catch
> up to the rest of the big dogs. I have 9500/200 Mac with the built in ATI
> 2mb video, two SCSI 2 gig hard drives ( the second just for Yellow Dog) and
> 384mb of ram. I partitioned my 2nd hard drive to have 1.2mb for root/ 500mb
> for /usr 300mb for /home and 128mb SWAP. Install went well until the last
> part where it sees my video card and then says that it was unable to
> configure Xwindows. The only option I have is to continue with out Xwindows
> install. I tried to install with the NO Video option checked, No luck. I
> can log into Yellow Dog at a command line. I tried to configure
> Xconfigurator, after I booted Yellow Dog and got error message. Looks like
> the X11 directory is there, just doesn't like something?
>
> Jim Fitch
-- Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com http://www.bgcorp.com --- "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."- Leo Tolstoy
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