[lug] Re: LUG digest, Vol 1 #1992 - 16 msgs

[sparling]

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>Thank You John and Zan,
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i did do a full install and had no problem with free space.

Thanx Again    :  )

  G

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>Message: 11
>Subject: Re: [lug] room for RH8
>From: Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Date: 10 Jan 2003 16:01:44 -0700
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
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>On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:53, sparling wrote:
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>>Hello All,
>>thanx in advance for you help.
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>>i have 1.2 Gb free space to upgrade from RH7, yet when i try to install=20
>>8 i am told i only have 356 Mb of space which the installer tells me is=20
>>not enough.
>>how do i do the upgrade under these conditions?
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>Is that 1.2 GB one a single partition, or on many?  If you are using
>multiple partitions, the RedHat installer may need more space on a
>particular partition, like / or /usr.
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>If you have a separate /home partition with all the data that you care
>about, you may want to forget the update and do a full installation
>where you format every partition except /home.
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>Message: 12
>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:18:02 -0700
>From: "John Hernandez" <John.Hernandez at noaa.gov>
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: Re: [lug] room for RH8
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
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>Zan Lynx wrote:
>| On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 15:53, sparling wrote:
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>|>Hello All,
>|>thanx in advance for you help.
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>|>i have 1.2 Gb free space to upgrade from RH7, yet when i try to install
>|>8 i am told i only have 356 Mb of space which the installer tells me is
>|>not enough.
>|>how do i do the upgrade under these conditions?
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>| Is that 1.2 GB one a single partition, or on many?  If you are using
>| multiple partitions, the RedHat installer may need more space on a
>| particular partition, like / or /usr.
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>| If you have a separate /home partition with all the data that you care
>| about, you may want to forget the update and do a full installation
>| where you format every partition except /home.
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>Alternatively, you can go on an 'rpm -e' spree in an effort to free up
>enough space to please the installer.  For example, whichever of KDE
>or Gnome you don't use.  Who knows, there may turn out to be enough
>space to re-install it after the upgrade.
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