I'm working on a project to turn an HP T5530 thin client into a home file server. The existing hard drive was a measly 64MB (that "M" for megabyte) and the OS was Windows CE 5.0. Nothing about this machine screams "file server"... So I decided to load another OS to a USB thumb drive, and share files from my 1TB USB Seagate external. Low power usage, plenty fast for I/O duties, quiet, etc. I experimented with Ubuntu, Super Ubuntu, DSL (Damn Small Linux), FreeNAS, eventually settling on Puppy Linux. Here's my problem: When I go to download and install the Samba package I'm getting the following error (below). I've experimented with several different thumb drives ranging from 1GB to 16GB, adjusted my Puppy personal storage file, etc, no love. Any idea what I could be doing wrong? Do matter where I place or try to extract this package I get the error... :-k
Stupid question... did you actually install to the USB drive or are you using it as a live distro (i.e., read-only FS)?
I thought of that as well, and I think this might be the answer. I originally installed Puppy using the Netbootin tool, and encountering this problem went back and burned a Live CD and did an install using the actual Puppy installer. No change, same directory structures, etc.. The way puppy formats things on the USB drive you can write to it, there's a personal storage file that keeps all of your personal settings and files. There's even a tool you can use to expand it if needed. The thing is that the personal save file is at this point 5-6x larger than the space needed to unpack the package. But the amount of space that the install error reports doesn't match it. I dunno.
