From: jensen@peruvian.cs.utah.edu (travis jensen) Subject: Problems with installation Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1993 09:58:23 GMT
Sorry to bother, but I am out of ideas as to what I am doing wrong.
First, the machine:
486dx33 w/4MB RAM
234 MB HDD
VLB Video 7 Graphics card
Second, the Linux: I am using the latest release of SLS on tsx-11.mit.edu.
Lastly, the problem:
To start at the beginning, I have a 120MB DOS partition. I then set
up a 110k block partition for my file system and a 7k block partition
for swap space. I create a file system using "mke2fs -c /dev/hda2"
and a swap partition using "mkswap /dev/hda3" and "swapon" So far,
no errors.
Then I run doinstall. When I insert disk a2 and start uncompressing
the first file (I skip over the faq), I run out of disk space. I
don't even get the first file to uncompress from "bin.tgz" before
I run out of disk space.
I tried this again (all of it, first deleting the partions using
fdisk and then rebuilding them) but to no avail. I then tried
creating a DOS logical drive, formatted it (to make sure there was
nothing left from the Linux), deleted it, and tried to reinstall
Linux.
Does this sound at all familiar to anyone? If so, what am I doing
wrong?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Travis
*who is beginning to wonder if Linus wrote Linux as a *big* practical
joke against me*
-- Travis A. Jensen jensen@peruvian.cs.utah.edu (preferred) jensen@cadehp0.eng.utah.edu (next best) "My elelator! Not your elelator, my elelator!!"--Baby Plucky Duck