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Problem with Linux Installation
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| Hello. I have noticed an odd behaviour in Linux installation, and
would appreciate any help on it. It seems the problem exists in both
Red Hat 8 and SuSE 7.3 that I have tried (I note that IT DOES NOT
APPEAR in SuSE 8.1 that I have tried yesterday).
In particular, when starting a new installation and trying to
partition the disk, I have tried to put /var/mail in a SEPARATE
partition. This seems unacceptable by the installation, resulting in
the following error message (in SuSE 7.3) when starting copying files:
Package aaa_dir returned an error
Do you want to see the log file?
The log has the following:
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Installing aaa_base....OK
Installing aaa_dir....ERROR
(THE MESSAGE IN RED HAT IS SIMILAR)
I am confident this has to do with the /var/mail partition (no
problems when not creating it). Yet I really want this filesystem on a
separate disk (and partition), that's why I could really use some
help. I have also tried Solaris to create the same partition table,
with no problems at all.
Thank you
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| Bill Marcum 2004-01-23, 4:50 pm |
| On 13 Oct 2003 12:37:10 -0700, Greg
<grp@med.uoc.gr> wrote:quote:
> Hello. I have noticed an odd behaviour in Linux installation, and
> would appreciate any help on it. It seems the problem exists in both
> Red Hat 8 and SuSE 7.3 that I have tried (I note that IT DOES NOT
> APPEAR in SuSE 8.1 that I have tried yesterday).
>
> In particular, when starting a new installation and trying to
> partition the disk, I have tried to put /var/mail in a SEPARATE
> partition. This seems unacceptable by the installation, resulting in
> the following error message (in SuSE 7.3) when starting copying files:
>
> Package aaa_dir returned an error
> Do you want to see the log file?
>
> The log has the following:
> --------
> Installing aaa_base....OK
> Installing aaa_dir....ERROR
>
> (THE MESSAGE IN RED HAT IS SIMILAR)
>
> I am confident this has to do with the /var/mail partition (no
> problems when not creating it). Yet I really want this filesystem on a
> separate disk (and partition), that's why I could really use some
> help. I have also tried Solaris to create the same partition table,
> with no problems at all.
>
I don't know why this should cause an error (maybe you don't have enough
room in your other partitions?) but you could just create a partition
and mount it as /var/mail after installing.
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