MikeyD <m_donaghy50@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<414718b7$0$55401$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>...
> DB wrote:
>
> > Mikhail Zotov wrote:
> >> I've encountered the following situation while installing
> >> Slackware 10.0. The setup stops with the message
> >>
> >> ERROR: TARGET PARTITION FULL
> >>
> >> At the same time, df -h gives:
> >>
> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >> /dev/fd2 6.2M 6.2M 0 100% /
> >> /dev/fd0 1.4M 348k 992k 26% /floppy
> >> /dev/hda1 384M 64M 320M 17% /mnt
> >> /dev/hda3 675M 164M 511M 25% /mnt/usr
> >> /dev/hda5 478M 33M 445M 7% /mnt/var
> >> /dev/hda6 886M 33M 854M 4% /mnt/home
> >> /dev/hda7 157M 33M 124M 21% /mnt/tmp
> >> /dev/hdd 651M 652M 0 100% /var/log/mount
> >>
....
> >> Any ideas what can be wrong?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Mikhail
> >
> >
> > /dev/fd2 is your root ("/") partition. Maybe you did not mean to use
> > that as your "/" ?
> >
> He's installing, /dev/fd2 is really an initrd, /mnt and friends are the
> partitions he's installing to, and /dev/hdd is his slackware install cd.
> To the op: maybe you've run out of inodes. Try df -i.

Thanks for the reply!
At the moment when the error occurs, df -Ti gives

Filesystem Type Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hda# reiserfs 4294967295 0 4294967295 0% /mnt/...

for all partitions under /mnt.

Surprisingly, it is possible to hit <Enter> and finish
the installation process. Nothing really wrong seems to happen.

(I thought the the HDD can be bad and tried another one---with
_exactly_ the same result!)

Regards,
Mikhail