FC4 install. What have I done ?
Bill Case
billlinux at rogers.com
Sat Jun 18 16:53:26 UTC 2005
Hi;
I am scratching my head. Somehow FC4 has expanded from its *.iso files
into installation files in my /backup directory wiping out all iso files
and backups. I think I have to re-download my FC4 CD i386.iso images
and re-save my backups. Thats OK (once), but I can't figure out what I
did or how to make sure it doesn't happen again. Here is what happened:
FC3 is on hdb. I have partition, hda5, on my fat32 harddrive for
storing backups called /backup. It is included in fstab. hda5 is 7Gb and
had about 1G of backup files and directories etc. in it.
I wanted to down load the 4 CD *.iso files (approx. 3.6 G) to my backup
partition and then rather than burning them to cd's right away, install
FC4 on my linux drive (hdb) directly from /hda5 (/backup). So far, so
good.
I was admittedly screwing around, looking inside the *.iso s as well as
re-booting etc. before starting the actual install. When It came time
to install, all the .iso s had been expanded, my backups wiped out and
'df' returns:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb7 28138992 5755348 20954264 22% /
/dev/hdb5 77749 32057 41678 44% /boot
/dev/hda5 649838 649838 0 100% /backup
none 322620 0 322620 0% /dev/shm
FC4-i386-disc1.iso 649838 649838 0 100% /backup
While: [/backup]$ 'du' returns:
188143 ./Fedora/base
450019 ./Fedora/RPMS
638164 ./Fedora
6054 ./images/pxeboot
20804 ./images
6173 ./isolinux
665252 .
What did I do wrong to cause this and how can I make sure it doesn't
happen again?
Regards Bill
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