HD full

kicksnlicks · n00b Joined: 10 Oct 2007 Posts: 9

Im using the minimal cd, trying to install on a dell dimension v350

I made it all the way to downloading Stage 3 tarball
About 25% through, im getting a message saying it can't create file because there is no more space in device (or something to that effect. can't remember exactly)

Is my HD full?
If so, is there anything I can do?

timeBandit · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:31 am Post subject:

Need more information: How big is your hard drive? What size partition(s) did you create for Gentoo? Are there other OSes on it, in partitions you didn't delete?
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timeBandit · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:56 am Post subject:

OK then, that's the easiest case. This should tell us how big the partitions and the disk are:

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Where did you try to save the downloaded tarball? What is the output of cat /proc/mounts when it fails? Also, what is the output of df?

timeBandit · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:32 am Post subject:

Looks like you have about an 8.0GB drive (which, incidentally, should be in the first line of output from fdisk...you skipped that part. :wink:

) That's a little snug for Gentoo but it should work. bunder probably has it right, odds are good you mounted the wrong partition at /mnt/gentoo. df -h shows the space used and available on all mounted partitions so if that's the case it should be obvious: /mnt/gentoo will be listed as about 32M or 512M, instead of ~7.5GB.
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timeBandit · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 3:43 am Post subject:

You skipped step 4.e. in the Handbook: Mounting your new partitions.

Edit: No need to start over, you can repeat that step and continue on. To be safe, you might want to repeat from 4.d to be absolutely certain you created your filesystems. Thery're empty still, so there's no harm.
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gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Did u cd /mnt/gentoo ?
If you dont do that before the download f the stage 3 tarball you will run out of space a si think its currently holding info in your ram.
I may be incorrect but I had that problem many times before.

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Was this thread solved ?

timeBandit · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

Re-read the thread, especially the three posts starting here. /mnt/gentoo was not mounted.
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