>On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 12:21:46AM -0600, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
>> As did RH 4.2 install, 5.0 sucks as well. I don't know why they make them
>> so terribly, but they do. I tried to upgrade my system. I only had about
>> 40 megs free. RH 5.0 upgrade tried to install 220M when I didn't tell it
>> too. It just said that it had found the packages that needed to be
>> upgraded. I did not install 220 megs of packages on my 4.2 install. Why
>> does it do this? Another thing that sucks is that it doesn't auto detect if
>> you have enough HD space, it just goes ahead until it has an error. Now I
>> tried to reinstall completely without an upgrade, and it doesn't install
>> "pico".
>
>pico (I assume you are referring to the editor) is part of the pine mail system.
>> You would think that if RH was going to take on such a project as
>> customizing linux, they would at least have a good install program!!!!!!!
>Definitely room for improvement on the disk space monitoring.
>paul
I'm going to add my $.02...
Anyone who tries to upgrade an OS with only 40MB of free space is just begging
for something to go wrong. If I am wrong, I will be corrected, but I believe
that the RPM install saves the previous package goodies. This will result
in more space being required. This doesn't even include any new stuff that
needs to be installed.
But, you are right in that the install should look to see if there is enough
space left before preceeding.
MB
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