Colony 5 installer -- /var fills up

Jerome Gotangco jgotangco at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 10:26:41 UTC 2005


Yep, that's a scratched CD alright. I've burned a Colony 5 today on a
CD-RW that has been twice and it gave me the same thing. With a clean
disc, the installer went  nicely..

> _Description: Copying packages failed
>  Copying packages to the hard disk failed. You may have run out of disk
>  space in the target /var filesystem, or your CD drive may be having
>  problems reading packages from the CD. Cleaning the CD drive or burning the
>  CD at a lower speed may help.
>  .
>  Check /var/log/syslog or see virtual console 4 for the details.
>
> I'd diagnose something like a dirty CD drive or a scratched CD. Drive
> and/or CD cleaning kits are often helpful.
>
> Cheers,
>

Jerome Gotangco
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