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Mint in notebook install

Post by Voroshek »

Notebook Dell inspiron 1721
Linux Mint 14 and 13, 32bit
I have a breaking installation whit message "This computer has only 0 bytes disk space remaining".
I have search in google, similar problem was because of bad blocks HDD. But the badblocks utilite return none, then windows install true.
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Re: Mint in notebook install

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how much room is left in the Mint Partitions?
How big is the harddrive?
Can you paste the output of fdisk here please.
is it an SSD drive?
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Voroshek

Re: Mint in notebook install

Post by Voroshek »

Sorry, i have apparently the problem with hard, not OS.
DrHu

Re: Mint in notebook install

Post by DrHu »

Yes the hard drive partitioning setup you used is the problem: that is why you were being asked for partitioning data
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -remaining
  • The problem is lack of space possibly on the boot drive..to do an installation of the OS
    --or possibly too small a partition with not enough space to complete an install..
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