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Thursday, August 26, 2004

4GB is not enough?

I have a 4GB vmware-ed XP partition that I tried to upgrade to SP2 today. In vain. After downloading it for the 3rd time it told me instead of "installation failed because there is not enough space on your harddisk" the slightly better "you need an additional 493MB of free space to install XP". Sorry? There is nothing installed except the base of XP on this partition and it is too small to even containt that.

That and the problems I've been having today to get a minimal install of RHAS 2.1 makes me believe nobody is interested in the maxim "small is beautiful". Or as I think "less code are fewer bugs".

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