on 3-4-2009 2:48 PM Todd Cary spake the following: > Bill - > > I did remove some of the older files (only a few) and there was then > enough room to unpack the update. Is there some basic guideline on how > many to remove? > > Todd > > William L. Maltby wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:38 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: >> >>> When doing my updates, I got this message: >>> >>> error: unpacking of archive failed on >>> file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.0. >>> 13.EL;49a >>> >>> Unfortunately, I installed Centos 4 about two years ago on my server >>> that sits in the corner and does it's job of faithfully providing >>> services without me touching it except to run a backup script and do a >>> YUM update every week so. The result is that I have forgotten my >>> Linux know how! >>> >> >> Out of space? do a df and df -i on the file system and see if the space >> looks tight. If so, cleaning out some cruft might help. Also, if /boot >> is mounted read-only I guess that could cause it. >> >> >>> Help! >>> >>> Todd >>> <snip sig stuff> >>> >> >> HTH >> > > -- > Ariste Software > Petaluma, CA 94952 > I would think that the current running kernel and the last should be enough. Maybe 3 for a short while after a kernel upgrade. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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