Re: [tlug] RH7.2

[Jim Breen <jwb@example.com>]

[Matt Gushee (Re: [tlug] RH7.2) writes:]
>> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:47:54PM +1100, Jim Breen wrote:
>> > Thanks for all the partitioning advice. I installed RH7.2 today in the
>> > ~15Mb partition on my notebook. I tried manual control of the partition,
>> > but the installation kept failing saying there were disk errors -
>> > possibly not enough space. Finally I gave up and accepted its
>> 
>> Just for future reference: I no longer use RedHat, so I'm not sure if
>> this info is up-to-date, but it used to be that the installation
>> process involved dumping all the packages into /tmp, so you had to plenty
>> of room in whatever partition /tmp was on.

That may well be it. The partition that had /tmp was 4.8Gb. It may have
overflowed during loading.

Thanks

Jim

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