I installed the Debian 1.3.1 base system from diskettes, on a system that
has only 32 megs disk space (not counting the swap partition).
I copied /usr and /var/lib/dpkg to a larger system (this one) and did
NFS mounts;
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1 31724 7096 22990 24% /
annette:/linuxsrv 474227 263166 186567 59% /linuxsrv
annette:/linuxsrv/huey_usr
474227 263166 186567 59% /usr
annette:/linuxsrv/huey_dpkg
474227 263166 186567 59% /var/lib/dpkg
I then tried to complete the installation by using dselect to install
the default list of packages by ftp. Everything proceeds as expected
until it's ready to download the packages. Then, after the list of
required packages, I get
Approximate total space required: 33224k
Available space in debian: 59%k
and it refuses to download more than two or three packages. This is my
second attempt at the installation, the first time the message was
Available space in debian: k
If I do the installation without using NFS mounts, the available space
is displayed correctly, but is too small to be useful.
Any ideas? How does dpkg-ftp determine the available disk space?
If all else fails I'll get a CDROM and try again, which I've avoided
so far mainly because I'd have to use NFS to access the cdrom, and
probably run into another set of problems.
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