grub on EEE PC

[Alain Muls]

>
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:13:52 -0000, Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a EEE PC 901 from my friend who runs XP on it for a couple of
> > weeks.
> > I bought a 16GB card and installed Karmic UNR on it. I decided to put the
> > grub on my card and not the /dev/sda where XP has its bootloader (I
> > suppose). I made a backup of the bootloader with dd.
> >
> > Now I wanted to put the grub bootloader onto /dev/sda but this fails
> > with a
> > message that he ran out of disk space. Is there a way to do this?
> >
> Rather obvious question but, how much free space is there on /dev/sda
>
>        df -h
>
> in a terminal will tell you.
>
> --
> Steve
>
>
Hi All,
More than enough, 10G should do the trick :-)
bye/Alain
PS: I restored the XP bootsector but I would like to replace it though.