On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 19:20:11 +0100, Agustin wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 00:20:10 +0100, Agustin wrote: > >> Hi and happy new year to everyone, >> >> I have a question regarding the possibility of upgrading the kernel on my >> debian sarge machine. I see from the synaptic manager that what I have >> installed is kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386, and that there is another >> available, kernel-image-2.6.9-1-386. Can anyone tell me if it is a good >> option to install this? When I had RedHat 9.0 there were periodic upgrades >> available for the kernel and I implemented them all, automatically. My >> machine has the following partitions: >> >> Directory Type >> >> /dev/hdh2 / ext3 >> /dev/hdh5 /usr ext3 >> /dev/hdh6 /var ext3 >> /dev/hdh7 /tmp ext3 >> /dev/hdh8 /home ext3 >> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs >> >> MTIA for any help, >> >> Agustin > > Actualizando mi post de anoche: > > Cuando intento instalar el kernel nuevo me aparece un fallo porque en hdh2 > no hay espacio. No se como liberar espacio en hdh2- pensà probar a > redimensionar con qtparted pero no tengo esa opciÃn para esa particiÃn. > > Log sigue: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su > Password: > DEBBIE:/home/agustin# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386 Leyendo > lista de paquetes... Hecho > Creando Ãrbol de dependencias... Hecho Paquetes sugeridos: > lilo kernel-doc-2.6.9 kernel-source-2.6.9 > Se instalarÃn los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS: > kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386 > 0 actualizados, 1 se instalarÃn, 0 para eliminar y 623 no actualizados. 3 > no instalados del todo o eliminados. Se necesita descargar 0B/14,2MB de > archivos. Se utilizarÃn 42,4MB de espacio de disco adicional despuÃs de > desempaquetar. (Leyendo la base de datos ... 122084 ficheros y directorios > instalados actualmente.) Desempaquetando kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386 (de > .../kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386_2.6.9-4_i386.deb) ... You are attempting to > install a kernel image (version 2.6.9-2-386) However, the directory > /lib/modules/2.6.9-2-386 still exists. If this directory belongs to a > previous kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386 package, and if you have deselected some > modules, or installed standalone modules packages, this could be bad. > However, if this directory exists because you are also installing some > stand alone modules right now, and they got unpacked before I did, then > this is pretty benign. Unfortunately, I can not tell the difference. > > If /lib/modules/2.6.9-2-386 belongs to a old install of > kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386, then this is your last chance to abort the > installation of this kernel image (nothing has been changed yet). > > If this directory is because of stand alone modules being installed right > now, or if it does belong to an older kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386 package but > you know what you are doing, and if you feel that this image should be > installed despite this anomaly, Please answer n to the question. > > Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.6.9-2-386 out of the way, > perhaps to /lib/modules/2.6.9-2-386.old or something, and then try > re-installing this image. > Do you want to stop now? [Y/n]n > dpkg: error al procesar > /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386_2.6.9-4_i386.deb > (--unpack): > fallà en buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1): error en dpkg-deb durante > `./boot/config-2.6.9-2-386': No queda espacio en el dispositivo > dpkg-deb: el subproceso paste fue terminado por la seÃal (TuberÃa rota) > Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing > for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . > Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: > /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1-386 Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-1-386 Updating > /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done > > Se encontraron errores al procesar: > /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.9-2-386_2.6.9-4_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > DEBBIE:/home/agustin# > > O sea, me pone una nueva entrada en Grub, pero ha sido una instalaciÃn > fallida. Por donde sigo :) > > Gracias > > Agustin
Sorry, this was meant for the Spanish-speaking forums. All the same, the question is still pertinent. I'm having difficulty upgrading the kernel because I get the message that my partition hdh2 is full, so installation is not possible. Any ideas are welcome. Regards, Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
