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Distribution: Slackware 10, Mandrake 10, Solaris 9 at school
Posts: 36
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install problems - no space on device?
Im using 6gigs of space and following a tutorial from bitbenderforums.com (I can't post the URL, since this is my 1st post) to install Slack (my first time)
I chose the full install which is supposed to take ~3gb. I had 6gb allocated and towards the end of the package installation it kept giving "no space on device" error messages. I thought it was because I made so many partitions (as in the tutorial). I tried again with just one root partition and one swap, and still got the same results.
General output of cfdisk:
hda1 ntfs 13555 mb
hda2 linux ext2 6185 mb
hda5 linux swap 263 mb
Distribution: Slackware 10, Mandrake 10, Solaris 9 at school
Posts: 36
Original Poster
Rep:
It worked the third time. The only thing that was different is the second time, during the part where it says "swap space detected", it gave me a warning about "mkswap" and I think I chose to cancel it.
This third time it didn't give me any warning. hmm
Now how to get ethernet configured.. can't connect to the net. I'm on a cable modem, through a router. Knoppix and Mandrake both connected automatically. On netconfig I put DHCP (which is what it is).
the routing table only shows one entry, interface lo
I have to restart my ethernet after I boot,I use dhcp so as root I run dhcpcd eth0 and then to check it I run ping www.google.com -c 5 to make sure its O.K.Don't know why I have to do this?
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