VanLUG Email Archive
Graham (graham@arcteryx.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:19:44 -0800
Hi everyone,
I am relatively new to this and have had more than a few problems with my
installation. I have installed Caldera Openlinux 1.3 on my laptop (a 486
DX2). Because my cdrom is external and not recognised by Linux, I have had
to do a hard drive install from an extended DOS partition. Because of
limitations on the number of primary and secondary partitions allowed on a
disc, I then have to use the first partition on my hard drive for my Linux
/ partition, of course overwriting DOS. I then have all the files from my
cd (I actually have both Caldera and RedHat cd's copied to the hard drive)
on the remaining logical drive in the extended DOS partition (2GB as hda5
within hda2), a primary Linux partition (bootable) as hda1 (I have been
giving this only 100MB), a primary Linux partition mounted as /usr as hda3
(I have been giving this almost 2GB), and a Linux swap partition (130MB as
hda4).
My problem is this; after fooling with things for a while and getting
everything configured the way I want, I eventually get an error message
while trying to start either X or KDE to the effect that there is no space
available on /tmp and of course I cannot use my GUI. This happened last
night after I had created a link to KDE for StarOffice and an icon on my
desktop. I looked at the contents of /tmp and deleted a few things but it
still wouldn't work.
Exactly what is being created in /tmp (is this within my 100MB / partition
which only has about 30MB free after an "install all packages"
installation)? Why is this always filling up on me after about a week of
use? Why does deleting things not work? Is it using /tmp while launching X
in such a manner that the physical size of StarOffice is causing the
problem? (I have been doubting this as the link I created was for KDE and
not X and neither will start). I have found a temporary solution each time
by re-installing Linux completely but this is a pain every week. This time
I increased the size of my / partition to the max allowed to still make it
bootable. I'm not sure if this will help or not. Any thoughts anyone?
-Graham Hunt
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