Whoops!
Yes, I did mean 2 GB free on my root partition. The root partition is a
7.5 GB disk. Currently, 5.1 GB of the disk are used. Of this, 1.1 GB
are in /usr and 58 MB are in /var. Does it matter how full individual
directories are? Wouldn't the installation write the necessary files to
a directory until it hit the limit of the partition? Here's a df on the
machine:
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 7546410 5077545 2077683 71% /
/dev/hda1 388570 7352 361139 2% /boot
/dev/sda4 3912254 3112011 597824 84% /ash
/dev/sdb4 16813861 11020449 4917870 69% /ash2
jonesy:/dallas 12289597 9183524 2467490 79% /dallas
jonesy:/sigourney 7198847 4786642 2039145 70% /sigourney
jonesy:/sigourney2 198313 13 188046 0% /sigourney2
sulaco:/sulaco 44228372 39137348 2844336 93% /sulaco
kcsa:/potassium 38472404 32317932 4200168 88% /potassium
ryder:/winona 32495316 10149676 20694964 33% /winona
deckard:/data 67274964 60961404 2896136 95% /deckard_data
I refuse to believe that I would have to wipe out the current
installation and start over. This machine has been working great under
6.2. It's been up like a year under heavy use. Wiping out and
reinstalling is not an acceptable upgrade path. Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Hidong
ABrady wrote:
>
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 05:21:48 -0800
> Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can't upgrade my Red Hat 6.2 machine to 7.1 or 7.2. I have factory
> > 7.1 CDs, and 7.2 CDs I burned myself. I've used the 7.2 CDs to
> upgrade
> > two other 7.1 machines. But on this 6.2 machine, the 7.2 CDs aren't
> > even recognized as Red Hat CDs. The 7.1 CD crashes when I try to do a
> > graphical install with an error message about GRUB. If I try to
> install
> > 7.1 in text mode, the installation dies during the copying of the
> > install image to disk with an error message about not enough disk
> > space. I have over 2 MB free space on the root partition of this
> > machine. How much space do I need? I don't even get to the part
> where
> > I specify install or upgrade. It seems like I wouldn't be able to do
> > even a fresh installation of 7.x on this machine. I thought maybe
> there
> > was something wrong with the hardware, like the CD-ROM. But 6.1 CDs
> are
> > recognized fine. How can I make the leap to Red Hat 7.x for this 6.2
> > machine? Thanks,
>
> Unless you mean you have 2GB on the root partition, and _NOT_ 2MB, you
> don't have enough. If you meant 2GB, then what about /var or /usr or one
> of the other partitions? How full are the others? If any of them are
> full or nearly so, you might be able to do a fresh install. But you may
> already be so close to the limit that an upgrade isn't possible. You may
> be forced to wipe everything and start again.
>
> --
> If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
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