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Francois Colonna <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:30:28 +0100
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Connie Sieh wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Francois Colonna wrote:
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>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I tried to install SL4.4
>>
>>I defined a customized configuration of 3.7 Go
>>I have  two system partitions where SL can store the image of the pac=
>>kages
>>
>>"/"  of 14 G
>>or
>>"/boot" of 1.4 G
>>
>>I have no "/tmp" partition
>>
>>SL 4.4 crashed  by lack of disk space when it tried to copy the=20
>>configuration on disk.
>>    
>>
>
>What is the error message?
>  
>
It is approximately  "unable to copy packages probably because of  lack 
of disk space"
I can  run it again tomorrow

>  
>
>>My question is : is SL4.4  using "/boot"  for that ?
>>I thought "/boot" was not used to store temporary files.
>>    
>>
>
>I doubt that /boot is used for anything other than the /boot kernel and 
>grub files.
>
>  
>
I just wanted to be sure of that.

>Can you send a 
>
>  fdisk -l
>
>of the disk in question?
>
>-Connie Sieh
>  
>
here is the fdisk -l result (in french, sorry)

Disque /dev/sda: 100.0 Go, 100030242816 octets
255 têtes, 63 secteurs/piste, 12161 cylindres
Unités = cylindres de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 octets

Périphérique Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         243     1951866   1b  Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2             244        3940    29696152+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3            3941        5764    14651280   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            5765       12161    51383902+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5           11825       12161     2706921   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda6            5765        5955     1534144+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            5956        7867    15358108+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8            7868       11824    31784571   83  Linux


Do you have any idea ? Of course I checked the CD

Thank you

François Colonna





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