On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 08:13:51PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2003 11:49:56 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 07:33:16PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > > I tried installing a new kernel on one machine, and got the following > > > > error message: > > > > > > > > [root@xxxxxx root]# rpm -ivh /var/spool/autoupdate/kernel-2.4.20-13.8.i686.rpm > > > > Preparing... ########################################### [100%] > > > > installing package kernel-2.4.20-13.8 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem > > > > [root@xxxxxx root]# df /boot/ > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > > /dev/hda1 15M 11M 3.6M 75% /boot > > > > [root@xxxxxx root]# > > > > > > Well lets see: > > > (tigger pts2) $ ll -h *8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 505K May 12 12:15 System.map-2.4.20-13.8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44K May 12 12:15 config-2.4.20-13.8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K May 12 12:15 module-info-2.4.20-13.8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.0M May 12 12:15 vmlinux-2.4.20-13.8 > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M May 12 12:15 vmlinuz-2.4.20-13.8 > > > > > > The above alone looks like more than 3.6 megs. > > > > And that's with no initrd. > > > > As I suspected, the error message is wrong; probably an example of a > > program with a magic number instead of a run-time caclulation. > > The above error message is not wrong. It is to be interpreted as > "needs an addition 2 MB of free space". Your 3.6 MB are not enough. <irony> Oh. Sorry. Being telepathically challenged, I was unable to read the programmer's mind to determine what he/she/it really meant. Sorry, I'll try harder next time. </irony> If that's what the author meant, that's what the author should have written. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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