Tim Wood wrote: > > Hi, > I managed to do a floppy/ftp install of Potato on an old 4086DX-33 > laptop (8MB RAM 120MB HDD) but ran out of disk space.
What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`? If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`, i.e. not have mounted? > I used a 16MB swap file. This seems appropriate. > At one point I had in mind to use it as a gateway on my 10base2 LAN but > my current laptop (sorry it's RH6.2 at the moment) and Windoze98SE > desktop are running Seti 24/7 so I'd like to remove all the non > essentials. Do you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a Debian package in non-free. > It is running Distributed.Net OGR but the files are a bit of a mess. > I have tried using Dselect to delete unwanted portions but failed. I got > it to run by manually deleting numerous documents, which I was sure I > could manage without, but would like to be able to use Dselect in the > future. Do you mean that you deleted arbitrary files in /usr/doc? And only in there? > Is there anyway to update the database to reflect what is actually > there? > I'm afraid this happened a few months ago and I don't remember exactly > which files I took out. I have just completed an apt-get update/upgrade > so I presume that the system is in reasonable shape. Only the files which have been updated will have been upgraded. I wonder if running `cruft` would be helpful. > As you will probably guess my Linux exposure is limited. However I'm > quite capable of editing any files. This is the starting skill of the most erudite Linux masters. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home ph. on Q) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html RMS of Borg: "Resistance is futile; you shall be freed."
