Can't boot Lucid after upgrade from Karmic

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 29 22:01:28 UTC 2010


On 05/29/2010 02:57 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:43 PM, NoOp ...
>> 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.
> 
> I wonder where they get the 2G from. A clean install from the Live CD
> takes up 2.3G.

Ah. You are correct. I recall that I had issues on a test system where
lucid complained & did need 2.3Gb.

> 
> Having /usr mount on a separate partition makes 3G for / more than enough.
> 

I realize that. But I'd check to see if you've enough on  /tmp /usr/ etc.






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