by Tom Parri » Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:31:01
I've just installed a RH 7.2 on a new system. However, when I run
mkbootdisk, I get the error:
gzip: stdout: No space left on device
I'm guessing this is because my kernel + drivers is too big to fit on a
floppy. (I'm using software RAID 5 on SCSI disks). Does anyone have any
suggestions for how I can:
a) get mkbootdisk to work, or,
b) generate a bootable CD-ROM?
Many thanks in advance,
Tom
by James Knot » Mon, 14 Jan 2002 22:35:52
> a)?get?mkbootdisk?to?work,?or,
> b)?generate?a?bootable?CD-ROM?
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james.knott.
1. RH 5.2, wmconfig, "No space left on device"
I've been having a problem that is driving me crazy and I know the
problem has got to be an easy fix. What that is eludes me.
I have X configured on my notebook and have been using it successfully
for some time. I recently added all of the extra RPMs for the various X
utilitiles and toys. Since then root can still use X but my regular
user account can't. If I log in as a regular user and startx, The
cross-hatch backgroup starts, the "X" cursor appears, then that's it I
can get a menu of "Builtin Menu" and "Exit FVWM" and nothing else. If I
do this under root, everything works fine.
I checked the file .FVWM2-errors and find:
/etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.menus.m4:71: m4: ERROR: Copying inserted
file: No space left on device
I tracked down the problem to wmconfig and it appears to be
straightforward enough: there are a ton of packages in the
/etc/X11/wmconfig directory and the script fvwm2rc.menus.m4 fails while
processing the contents of it. In short it appears that root can get
as much disk/memory or whatever it needs to process everything but a
non-privileged user can't.
The man page for wmconfig isn't helpful solving this problem I found
references to the root -vs- user problem in DejaNews but the solutions
offered don't solve this one.
Can anyone tell me what I need to do to fix this, other than removing a
number of the packages?
Thanks in advance...
Barry
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