Installation of package failed due to lack of disk space

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Hi. I’m trying to update my openSUSE 10.3 system to 11.0. I tried doing it via a USB flash update (the server in question doesn’t have a builtin optical disk). That just didn’t work, so eventually I tracked down a USB to IDE adapter and did an install from DVD which was working fine until it started complaining about being unable to install a package.

The reason turned out to be a disk space problem caused by me sticking the dvd iso image on the root partition (to support the USB install). It’s stuck in the installer right now asking me to abort retry or skip, and I am wondering if there is any way to temporarily get into a shell and remove the dvd image which would fix the space problem and allow the upgrade to complete.

If I can’t do that, if I abort the upgrade now, can I recover the original system state without having to restore from backup, or better yet be able to pick up right where I left off during the update?

Any suggestions would be appreciated…

thx
mike

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Removing the DVD image isn’t likely to free up any disk space. Reason is that disk blocks assigned to a file are not reclaimed until the file is not in use by any process. And obviously the disk image is in use by the installer.

It doesn’t look hopeful. Maybe you should backup your /home, /etc and any other config files needed and do a fresh install anyway.

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I have backups, so I can recover from them if I need to.

I’m going to try and to a system repair from the 10.3 DVD to try and restore it to normal operation and try the upgrade again.

I found out that the installer has a setting that enables you to get a shell before and after yast runs, which is handy…