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Old 09-29-2003, 10:24 PM   #1
kunyc
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Question RH9 error disk space during installation


I've been trying to install RH9, but every time that i make the partitions, it gave me and disk space error my partitions are
/ 5 MB
/swap 512 MB
/var 8MB
/home 8 MB
/usr 5 GB

and when I'm installing i select all packages, if i make only 2 partitions /,/swap, it install OK,but i need make the others partitions in installation time, which is the recommended space for each partition if i want install everything???
 
Old 09-29-2003, 10:38 PM   #2
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first off, do u have enough space to do that? second, did u make more than 4 of those partitions primary? u have to make some of them logical(inside and extended partition)
 
Old 09-29-2003, 10:49 PM   #3
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try give more space to /
cus all your /sbin /bin utilites, kernel image(cus u dont have a separate /boot) etc are in it, maybe it needs more space, give it say 50mb.
 
  


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