Hallo, I posted this message last week. Because I didn't got any answer I try to give more details in the end of my posting.
I have installed Debian 1.2 successfully at home :-). Now I wanted to install it also at the university. I tried to do this by the "ftp"-method but failed. The problem seemed to be the following: I have a partition mounted on /var of about 80MB. To download the packages temporaryly they were stored somewhere in /var/lib/anywhere. To get enough space I mounted /var/lib on another computer (per NFS) with more than 1GB free space. But dselect (and freinds) seems to ignore this space and stops by saying "Not enough memory" (This are not the correct words -- ask me if I should try it again to get the correct answer.). So I downloaded all files to /var/lib/debian and tried the method "mounted disk". But I also failed and I am wondering what this errormessage would mean. When selecting "Install packages" I get the following: dpkg: error processing /path_to_package/package.deb failed to rmdir/unlink `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci': File exists After a number of this messages dpkg stops caused by to many errors. What the hell should be the reason for such a message. I tried to set all files in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci and the directory itself by chmod 777 * but nothing helps. May be I missed the following special environment: In the university we have some PC's with very small diskspace ( < 200MB ) all working in a Novell network. But it's to less for Linux :-). Because we have an HP workstation with relatively less trafic I thought we can use it as Linux fileserver per NFS. The administrator of this workstation (who isn't using Linux himselves) created a user `linux' on this workstation with the homedirectory /usr/local/linux. He added in /etc/exports: /usr/local/linux -access=[my.own.machine],root=[my.own.machine] so that I have access to this directroy being root on my Linux PC. I created /usr/local/linux/usr and /usr/local/linux/var/lib and added in my /etc/fstab two lines to mount /usr and /var/lib, respectively. Than I tared the /usr-tree, installed after installing the Debian install disks and untared it on /usr/local/linux/usr. I need to use /usr/local/linuc/var/lib to store the amount of *.deb files. I hope this additional information gives a hint to solve my problem. I'm in serious trouble. Please help. Thanks for all help. Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
