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Title: SL6000l with full"/" file system
Post by: BillS on November 09, 2004, 12:44:31 pm

Folks;
 Objective: get back to a clean baseline.
 Objective2: install SSH, Kismet,
 Background: I started playing with this 6000L by installing  'QConsole'. That was the last package that installed sucessfully. I have tried a number of others that always fail with some missing dependancy.
Kismet requires libncurses5  which requires something else I assume "ipkg says something went wrong"?.
I tried libc6 but was told that I had to remove a number of libraries to do the update. Looking at the list of    libraries, I decided the system would be dead if I removed those libraries and I wouldn't be able to run any dynamicly linked commands during the install.

So after all this mucking about, I think I have left a bunch of partial installs laying about, and '/' is now full.(this is the "internal flash?").

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# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                28672     28248       424  99% /
/dev/ram1                   44        29        15  66% /dev
/dev/mtdblock3           29696      8548     21148  29% /home
none                      1024        40       984   4% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcda1             495168       160    495008   0% /usr/mnt.rom/cardIs this the normal mode for the filesystems?

Might it be easier to put the packages I have downloaded out onto the SDCard, and then try to completly reinitialize the OS from the ROMs? If so, how is that done?

BillS

Title: SL6000l with full"/" file system
Post by: lumi on November 10, 2004, 10:59:41 am

On the SL-6000L root _always_ looks like that.  It doesn't mean your system is full or that you have done anything wrong.  I would go by the available space on /home if you want to know how full things are.  /home is "internal flash".

The view of root isn't related to your package install failures.  You don't say what instructions you are using to install.  You don't install libc6 via a package ... for kismet it is just a library you put in place.

There is a great set of instructions right here
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...0the%20SL-6000L (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=How%20to%20run%20Kismet%20on%20the%20SL-6000L)
that I followed and kismet works fine.

I can't give you the proper approach to clear everything.  Maybe you want to take this to the SL-6000 -specific forums.

Dave