Did those. All OK.
- insufficient disk space…i read that you are saving your old /home
but i don’t know the method you used to do that…see, the 10.1 install
had as default (if my memory serves me) the /home under the root file
system on the same partition…while 11.4 would default to making /home
on a separate partition…so, maybe you currently have an intermediate
step where you have a drive (or drives) with both a complete old 10.1
and a (too small) root partition partially filled with 11.4
software…AND, during the install process the system will use a large
amount of temporary files in /tmp and /var/tmp therefore, lets find out
how much free space you have available:
10.1 reported filesystems as follows:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2 21G 11G 9.8G 52% /
udev 419M 128K 491M 1% /dev
/dev/hdb3 129G 68G 62G 53% /home
/dev/hda1 77G 56G 22G 73% /windows/C
I have backed (most of) the /home files to an external drive; however, because the latter is NTFS, I had to go via 4G memory sticks, and left behind some 4+G iso DVD images that I was not sure would fit the sticks: I should prefer not to lose those, so do not really want to repartition /dev/hdb3. Presumably 11.4 reformats /dev/hdb2, so would have the whole 21G available. If not, I may have to buy another external drive, reformat it as something that Linux can write to and try to access the existing hdb3 somehow … not an endeavour that I relish, being now in the third day of this battle.
a. please boot the DVD
b. at the first green screen type “3” (no quotes) the 3 will appear in
the “Boot Options” line
c. press enter
d. you should come to a log in prompt, where i think you can just hit
enter a couple of times to be in (don’t remember exactly)
e. then run this command to see how much free space you have
df -h
and, let us know what it says as avaiable on the ‘rootfs’ line
Boot option 3 did not result in a login - just tried to install again. However, I aborted that and arrived at a shell somehow, with message
bash: CANNOT SET TERMINAL PROCESS GROUP (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control for this shell
Pressing on regardless,
/# df -h
bash: df: command not found
/# ls -l bin
...
df-> /mounts/mp-0000/bin/df
...
/# ls -l /mounts
............. mp-10002 (which appeared to be empty)
Poking around a bit, I found
/root/.config # cat Trolltech.conf
[Qt%20Plugin%20Cache%20204.7.false]
mounts\mp-0001\usr\lib\qt4\plugins\imageformats\libqjpeg.so=4071, 0, i386 linux g++-4 full-config, 2011-02-27T17:05:17
[Qt%20Factory%20Cache%20204.7]
com.trolltech.Qt.QImageIOHandlerFactoryInterface%3A\mounts\mp0001\usr\lib\qt4\plugins\imageformats\libqjpeg.so=2011-02-27T17:05:17, jpeg, jpg
/root/.gnupg # ls -l
-rw------- 1 0 0 1200 Aug 22 12:15 trustdb.gpg
/root/.gnupg cat trustdb.gpg
gpgNR:C
... lotsa empty space ...
OH! and while you are there lets see if Linux also sees 922MB of RAM,
with this command
/# free
Mem Total 993276 kB
Mem Free 966736
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I did get some more (possibly useful) int on my way back to a reboot into Windoze. One of the menus offered “Expert” (which I am obviously not - but nothing ventured …), which led to “Show config”. That told me, inter alia:
memory (kb): total 993276, free 963861 (963861), ramdisk 0
memory limits: min 12288, yast 170000, image 327680
RAM size (MB): total 960, min 0
swap file size 1024 MB
install url: cd:/?device=disk/by-id/ata-LITE-ON_DVDRW_SHW-160P6S
instsys url: rel:/boot/i386/root
…
cdroms:
sr0
disks:
sda
sdb
partitions:
sda1
sdb1
sdb2
sdb3
…
I have had a further thought overnight. Assuming that my machine (for whatever reason) is indeed forgetting that it has a DVD drive, and further assuming that the installation DVD is in fact OK, perhaps if I copy the contents of the DVD into a directory on my external (USB) hard drive, I could attempt to install from that, assuming that I can get the system to boot with the USB drive (NTFS) attached. I am reluctant to go through the nausea of copying 4+GB of data to the USB drive (0.5 TB) on the offchance, though.
