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From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>
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At 13:46 29-12-1998 -0500, Jim Foltz wrote:
>To recover, you need to delete files until you have enough disk space. If
>you were installing the docs, a good place to look to delete files would
>be in the /usr/share/doc directory.

Is there some default way of figuring what is in what directory? Had I
known the docs are in /usr/share/doc, I would have looked there first.

Although I am quite dissatisfied with M$ products, particularly Windows,
they do have several good ideas about user-friendliness. One of the rules
they suggest to (or demand of) developers is that if an install fails, it
should remove all traces of the partial install.

I think that is a good idea. It would have been nice if FreeBSD had just
said: "Well, I could not install it all, would you like me to delete the
few docs I did install?"

>Rebooting is rarely necessary unless you want to upgrade your kernel.
>In fact, if you are having a major problem, rebooting can be the
>absolutely worst thing you can do; as you found out. 

Yes, I found the hard way... Of course, if I did not reboot, I could not
have gone back to Windows and posted my question.

Adam
 
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