HD Install :: Frugal upgrade gone wrong



Hi,

hoping someone here can help me determine what went wrong and get my favorite distro back!

If I understood correctly, all that is generally require to upgrade a frugal install, is to replace the KNOPPIX file. In the case of upgrading from 3.4.0 to 3.4.2, Robert also wrote that minirt24.gz needed replacing.

Sounded easy, so full of n00b enthusiasm I set to work..

* mounted /hda1
* deleted KNOPPIX
* started copying over the new KNOPPIX file...

.. copy failed due to lack of room???!! I tried again, same result. Then I checked the properties for hda1 - partition size 65MB, 50MB used?? And yet I just deleted the KNOPPIX file, all 47-odd MB of it..

When I check the drive, it looks as it "should" - ie. there doesn't appear to be any files that shouldn't be there. At root level:
/KNOPPIX - directory appears empty
/boot
  contains: grub directory, linux24, minirt24.gz
/lost+found - empty directory

Then I started thinking that doing this from DSL was probably a bad idea, so I rebooted into Puppy. Same story. I'm guessing doing this while DSL was running was probably a really silly idea that messed something up..

What can I do to get the partition to recognize that I deleted a big file and most of the space is free??

thanks!
Errr... crisis averted! Phew, I'm relieved and sheepish. I can't believe I tried to work on the boot drive from inside the os running from that drive.

Within Puppy, I ran e2fsck -p (auto fix) and there was one broken inode. After that - plain sailing! The correct free space showed up, I copied over the 2 new files, rebooted into DSL 3.4.2 - and here I am, surfing the web wirelessly from my DSL laptop and reporting to the forum..

original here.