On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 23:54, David Talkington wrote:
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> Charles Galpin wrote:
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> >> installing package kernel-2.4.9-31 needs 3Mb on the / filesystem
> >
> >This should read "needs an additional 3Mb". In other words 3Mb more than
> >you have.
> >
> >Dunno. This happened to me on my firewall with a tiny disk - my
> >solution? Put a bigger drive in my standby firewall and deployed it.
> 
> How big a disk are you using these days?  I'm still building fully
> functional Red Hat gateway/network monitor/DHCP/DNS boxes on 370MB
> (500ish, minus generous swap space) ...  it's getting to be more of a
> challenge with every release, though ... Red Hat's definitely not the
> right distro for slim devices.

About that I think - box if off now so I can't verify to be sure. I also
partitioned her up pretty heavily with the intent of mounting most of it
read only. This also led to less available space on each chunk.

I'm fortunate that old 1-2gig drives are readily available (read lying
around) so I just "upgraded" my $55 firewall boxes.

charles



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