Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 29 21:43:19 UTC 2010


On 05/29/2010 12:48 PM, chris wrote:
...
>> On my 200MB drive (/dev/sda), I currently have:
>> 
>> /dev/sda1 Windows XP NTFS 90GB
>> /dev/sda2 Extended partiton
>>   /dev/sda5 swap 1GB
>>   /dev/sda6 / 3GB
>>   /dev/sda7 /tmp 5GB
>>   /dev/sda8 /usr 10GB
>>   /dev/sda9 /var 5GB
>>   /dev/sda10 /home 40GB
>>   unused 
>> /dev/sda3 Windows VFAT 5GB 
>> /dev/sda4 Windows Recovery VFAT 6GB (Recovery data)
>> 
>> This last partiton doesn't ever get mounted.
>> 
>> Tony 
>> 
> I would suggest that / is too small can you try 8GB as a minimum?
> cheers the kiwi

3GB should be sufficient for / :
<https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/i386/disk-space-needed.html>
"The standard Ubuntu desktop installation requires 2GB"

But I think it worth checking all the system partitions via the liveCD
to see if perhaps any are indeed full.






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