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> Well, I've learned to be rather careful using words like "only" and |
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> "all" without some sort of escape clause, since it takes only a single |
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> exception to disprove the case. However, running out of room is the case |
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> must of us are familiar with that would trigger that error (as should be |
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> obvious given you had essentially three people suggest the same cause), |
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> and the usual reason for that is that one is extracting to a location that |
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> didn't have the free space one expected -- because it's not the location |
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> one had in mind. |
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abyway, i am suing BLAg to read this email. also downloading "Linux |
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>From Scratch LiveCD". tomorrow morning i will try Gentoo. |
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> Another possibility in the same vein... Are you sure you created your |
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> partitions correctly? IOW, you didn't make it say 40960 KB (40 MB) instead |
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> of 40960000-odd KB (40 GB), right? Again, the output from df should |
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> make such a mistake immediately clear, if you did. |
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partitons were correct. damn-sure :-) |
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> Yet another variant on the theme would be if you messed up fstab, |
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> assigning / to the small partition you intended for /boot, or something |
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> like that. |
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i havn't even touched fstab. |
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> It was in an interview I read on one of the computer mag sites. I used to |
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> include the link as well, but decided that was a bit heavy for a sig, so |
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> don't now. However, a bit of quick googling points to this from late 2004: |
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> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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hey thanks BUDDY ;-) |
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> It's well worth reading, both on the freedom theme and because much of the |
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> material discussed, the freeing of Solaris and Java, is just as topical |
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> now if not more so than it was then, what with Java being GPLv2ed, and |
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> some hints coming out of Sun that it /might/ actually consider relicensing |
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> Solaris under the GPLv3 if it likes the look of the final license. What |
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> with Linux staying hard GPLv2 and the opposition of the Linux kernel |
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> hackers to GPLv3, if Solaris /does/ go GPLv3 along with most of the |
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> GNU software family, and with Tivoizing and the possible fallout from the |
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> MS/Novell deal, things could quickly get /very/ (as in /extremely/) |
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> interesting in the world of freedom software. |
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> (I had to delete several paragraphs and force myself to be content with |
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> only the above, or this could easily become a multi-hundred line post on |
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> that alone. =8^) |
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If you have saved the "deleted" lines, send them to me. i want to read |
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them & If you have some time , create a BLOG of that "multi-hundred |
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line post BUT 1st email them to me, i will feel happy to have a draft |
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version 8-) |
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-- arnuld |
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http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ |
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