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I TRIED to upgrade from RH 5.2 to RH 6.1. But it claims I don't have
enough space in /usr. I tried for an hour deleting packages but
couldn't get below 6M still needed. I looked at /usr and it is 1GB,
same size as my new drives where I installed RH6.1 with no
problems. WHY does it say I don't have enough space? Is it trying to
find enough space without touching the old install? Any easy way
around this? I'm tempted to use brute force and back all my drive up
to tape, and do a new install destructively repartitioning it. Then
back up all the partitions from tape back to the new 6.1 disk. There
must be a better way but going through the custom packages and
deleting them 1 by 1 is not only a PITA which takes lots of time but
didn't work. *sigh*

Thanks!

PS yes I have a fresh backup. Made it right before attempting the
upgrade.

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"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
 Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to
 try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."

 - Indira Ghandi, the late Prime Minister of India

: I TRIED to upgrade from RH 5.2 to RH 6.1. But it claims I don't have
: enough space in /usr. I tried for an hour deleting packages but
: couldn't get below 6M still needed. I looked at /usr and it is 1GB,
: same size as my new drives where I installed RH6.1 with no
: problems. WHY does it say I don't have enough space? Is it trying to

Because RH is buggy as hell. WHy shouldn't it say the first thing that
comes into its head, no matter how wrong it is? It's set up for lusers.
It doesn't expect anyone to have a REAL setup. You try and set up
redhat on a machine decently partitioned and it'll laugh at you, make
you go through the selection hoops, then tell you at the end you don't
have enough space, and back to the beginning for you.

Use something else. Anything else. Preferably debian slackware or suse.
Modify to taste.

Peter