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[Joe Zien <jozien@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael James wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:18 am, Joe Zien wrote:
>  
>
> > I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, 
> > then made room for 7 GIG
> > and finally on a 10.6 partition
> > and still get the above message.
> > Something is wrong here.
> >    
>
> Something is wrong, just doing a df on my work machine,
> my root partition is exactly 10 Gig, but I'm only using 7.
> That's the default install, with extras but nowhere near all packages.
> (Took about 3/4 of an hour from a reasonably fast DVD)
>
> On the cluster nodes Suse9.3Pro let me install
> (a slightly customised versuin) into 4 Gig.
>
> Maybe poke around in the partitioning part of yast
> and make sure you really have 10 Gig??
>
>  
I just added knoppix 3.8.2 on /dev/hdb13 and
kubuntu 5.04 on /dev/hdb14 and /dev/hdb15 with
no problems. All three are 4GIG partitions.
Below is the output of cfdisk and fdisk -l on /dev/hdb:

# cfdisk /dev/hdb                    
		    cfdisk 2.11z

                              Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
                        Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB
                     Heads: 255   Sectors per Track: 63   Cylinders: 9729

     Name    Flags    Part Type       FS Type     [Label]    Size (MB)
     -------------------------------------------------------------------
     hdb1    Boot     Primary         NTFS        [^A]       10684.64
     hdb2             Primary         Win95 FAT32 (LBA)      5247.73
     hdb5             Logical         Linux swap             1052.84
     hdb6             Logical         Linux ext3             6358.15
     hdb7             Logical         Linux ext3             5000.98
     hdb8             Logical         Linux ext3             5000.98
     hdb9             Logical         Linux ext3             3002.23
     hdb10            Logical         Linux ext3             8603.65
     hdb11            Logical         Linux ext3             7600.16
     hdb12            Logical         Linux ext3             3997.49
     hdb13            Logical         Linux ReiserFS         3997.49
     hdb14            Logical         Linux ext3     [/]     3997.49
     hdb15            Logical         Linux ext3     [/]     3997.49
                      Pri/Log         Free Space             11482.50
# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      1299  10434186    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2          1300      1937   5124735    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb3          1938      8333  51375870    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5          1938      2065   1028128+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb6          2066      2838   6209091   83  Linux
/dev/hdb7          2839      3446   4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb8          3447      4054   4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb9          4055      4419   2931831   83  Linux
/dev/hdb10         4420      5465   8401963+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb11         5466      6389   7421998+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb12         6390      6875   3903763+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb13         6876      7361   3903763+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb14         7362      7847   3903763+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb15         7848      8333   3903763+  83  Linux

free space         8334      9729  11482050

There is defenitely 11GIG space on the end of /dev/hdb

jozien