Upgrading to Fedora
I'm in the midst of upgrading my Red Hat 9 machine to Fedora Core 1 (a.k.a. Red Hat 10). So far, I'm very impressed and I haven't even installed it yet. The download was super simple using bittorrent for Fedora Core 1. I took a couple of hours and voila - I had all three ISOs. This is the easiest RedHat download I've ever done. Burning the ISOs was a breeze since I have two CD burners in my Windows box. The first time I tried to install (a few hours ago), it failed with "Not Enough Disk Space." I suspect it's all my kernels in my /boot partition, so I removed them with some advice. The nice thing was that even though the install failed, I was right back where I started - with a working Operating System. I've yet to have a failed install on Windows or OS X that actually reverted back to the previous OS. Attempt #2 coming up shortly.
1/2 Hour Later: Hmmm, it still says I don't have enough disk space. I cleared out all the ISOs from /home, but I doubt that's gonna help. Here's my current usage - looks to be plenty of space (to me):
[root@drevil /]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 381139 110294 251167 31% / /dev/hda1 46636 9359 34869 22% /boot /dev/hda3 4830728 65860 4519476 2% /home none 773772 0 773772 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 13203660 3659772 8873176 30% /usr /dev/hda7 256667 125652 117763 52% /var /dev/hdb1 19686804 16801136 1885624 90% /data
Posted by Koz on November 12, 2003 at 08:11 PM MST #
Q: What's wrong with my Intel D845 / D865 motherboard or similar IDE controller (disk space error)?
A: If you get an error message with the installer, you need to do linux ide=nodma. The error message that some people get is: An error occurred transferring the install image to your hard drive. You are probably out of disk space. (Thanks to StarHeart for this.)
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Posted by Ricardo Arguello on November 13, 2003 at 06:06 AM MST #