Re: Installation errors

[Ian Duff <iduff ma ultranet com>]

Woops, correction to cardinal sin of not enough info; I'm running
Solaris 8 x86 build 4/01, latest patch cluster as of a week ago, Sun's
XFree86 Video port for my Savage/IX video driver, on an IBM ThinkPad T20
with a 3C589 PCMCIA NIC.

Ian Duff wrote:
> 
> Newbie/Windoze refugee question, can't find any reference in the FAQs
> I've found.
> 
> When I run the installer script, whether I pick "typical" or "custom",
> the script reports that I don't have enough space in the root partition.
> It claims I need exactly the same amount of space as GNOME will require,
> which would indicate to me that the installer script thinks the root
> partition is full.
> 
> Perhaps more likely is that I don't have sufficient permission to do the
> installation. Given that this is a science project for me, and an effort
> to see if I can wean myself from Windoze, I'm logged in as root, having
> not yet created user accounts. I would think that root has all the
> permissions I'd need, so I'm stuck.
> 
> Where could I find something to read to lead me further down this
> particular garden path? Might someone have a tip as to which fork in the
> road I should pursue? TIA,
> 
> -Ian Duff.