Bolan Meek wrote: > What's your partitioning look like? What's the output of `df`? > If you use cfdisk, are there any partitions you don't see in `df`, > i.e. not have mounted?
I have 104MB as root and 16MB swap there is 1% unuseable, presumably something to do with the drive geometry. It is a Seagate drive which RH 5.2 refused to recognise. I used a Win95/Partition Magic Rescue disk to set ip up as ext2 but gave up with RH. I had Debian 2.1 installed but then decided to use 2.2 as I was planning on using ipchains and masquerading. > > > I used a 16MB swap file. > > This seems appropriate. > > > At one point I had in mind to use it as a gateway on my 10base2 LAN but > > my current laptop (sorry it's RH6.2 at the moment) and Windoze98SE > > desktop are running Seti 24/7 so I'd like to remove all the non > > essentials. > > Do you mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a Debian package in >non-free. Yes that is what I was refering to but the machine is far too slow to use on Seti. > > > It is running Distributed.Net OGR but the files are a bit of a mess. > > I have tried using Dselect to delete unwanted portions but failed. I got > > it to run by manually deleting numerous documents, which I was sure I > > could manage without, but would like to be able to use Dselect in the > > future. > > Do you mean that you deleted arbitrary files in /usr/doc? And only > in there? > Yes. I deleted How-Tos etc as I have them on my other machine and on CD. I remember deciding that I could do without locales, it was over 10MB. > Only the files which have been updated will have been upgraded. I > wonder if running `cruft` would be helpful. I am not familiar with cruft and it does not seem to exist on the machine. Before doing the update there was 8.5MB free. On completion 3.8MB. I had decided that I would use dpkg to try and remove the packages that deslect would not. It went backwards to the point where there was only 400kB free. Since then I have got it down to 1038kB 99% by removing wvdial and pppconfig (it's on a LAN). I am not sure what the status of dselect is because, in the original install, it ran out of space. dselect refuses to remove the packages I decided I could do without. The machine has been "up" for over 62 days and I am reluctant to re-install but that would seem to be the simplest solution. > This is the starting skill of the most erudite Linux masters. > The problem is knowing what to add/edit. Back in my DOS days it seemed quite simple. Thanks for the help. Tim > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 972-729-5387 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home ph. on Q) http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan > RE: xmailtool http://www.koyote.com/users/bolan/xmailtool/index.html > RMS of Borg: "Resistance is futile; you shall be freed." > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
