boot failure due to insufficient space ??

Hello,

I have been using red hat linux (fedora core 1) with windows xp through
Grub boot loader for some time now.

Yesterday while working in linux a very large output data file was created. However I forgot to delete it.

Subsequently, linux is failing to boot saying that the disc space is not sufficient.
I had made the mistake from working from inside the root directory itself.

However I can boot normally to windows.
Could anybody help me suggest how to get through the ordeal? My emergency boot floppy disls in linux have become unusable.

Will it help if I perform an installation upgrade to (say Fedora core 1 or later) keeping the linux partitions as it is and installing only the minimum no: of rpms?

I do not want to format the linux partitions as I have no backup as yet.

Is there any easy solution?

Thank you.

First thing that comes to my mind is..
Can you boot a live CD.
Mount the partition that the file is on, and then delete or move that file?


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Thanks for suggesting I use the Knoppix CD ..I hadn't heard of it before..took some time to proure one and googled to find how to chroot from the root prompt..rest was easy.
thanks a lot to you all and LQ.org.

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