Bill - I did remove some of the older files (only a few) and there was then enough room to unpack the update. Is there some basic guideline on how many to remove? Todd William L. Maltby wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 11:38 -0800, Todd Cary wrote: > >> When doing my updates, I got this message: >> >> error: unpacking of archive failed on >> file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.0. >> 13.EL;49a >> >> Unfortunately, I installed Centos 4 about two years ago on my server >> that sits in the corner and does it's job of faithfully providing >> services without me touching it except to run a backup script and do a >> YUM update every week so. The result is that I have forgotten my >> Linux know how! >> > > Out of space? do a df and df -i on the file system and see if the space > looks tight. If so, cleaning out some cruft might help. Also, if /boot > is mounted read-only I guess that could cause it. > > >> Help! >> >> Todd >> <snip sig stuff> >> > > HTH > -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.toddcary.com/aristephotography/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090304/c47d4eee/attachment-0005.html>