ezphilosophy
March 14th, 2013, 09:08 PM
It has been a long time since I've asked for help, but I'm in dire need now.
Some time ago, I set up a friend's computer with 10.04. He's still running it but somewhere along the way, he started having trouble with his nvidia drivers and seemingly his whole system. Remotely, I've been trying to help him start from scratch and install fresh with 12.10. The problem is that his CD-rom is broken, and his BIOS will not allow him to boot from external media, i.e., usb cd/dvd rom and/or usb flash drives. Space on his system partition was very low but has deleted enough to give him just over a gig. I thought the best solution would be to boot from a local iso file through grub2. However, his system hasn't been updated/upgraded to grub2, he is still using the legacy version. We can't seem to upgrade him because, well, I guess you could say apt-get is (broken?) and apt-get -f install isn't fixing it. We can't remove or add packages until this is resolved. I've listed the commands we've tried and their output.
I would appreciate any help that would allow us to update the computer to grub2 and/or do a fresh install of Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get -f install
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.dpkg-new' (while processing./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig'): No space left on device No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb
sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic: linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic depends on linux-headers-2.6.32-45; however: Package linux-headers-2.6.32-45 is not installed. dpkg: error processing linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-generic: linux-headers-generic depends on linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic; however: Package linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-headers-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic linux-headers-generic
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb (--install): unable to create /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.dpkg-new' (while processing./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig'): No space left on device dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb
sudo apt-get autoremove
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.32-45 but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Some time ago, I set up a friend's computer with 10.04. He's still running it but somewhere along the way, he started having trouble with his nvidia drivers and seemingly his whole system. Remotely, I've been trying to help him start from scratch and install fresh with 12.10. The problem is that his CD-rom is broken, and his BIOS will not allow him to boot from external media, i.e., usb cd/dvd rom and/or usb flash drives. Space on his system partition was very low but has deleted enough to give him just over a gig. I thought the best solution would be to boot from a local iso file through grub2. However, his system hasn't been updated/upgraded to grub2, he is still using the legacy version. We can't seem to upgrade him because, well, I guess you could say apt-get is (broken?) and apt-get -f install isn't fixing it. We can't remove or add packages until this is resolved. I've listed the commands we've tried and their output.
I would appreciate any help that would allow us to update the computer to grub2 and/or do a fresh install of Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get -f install
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.dpkg-new' (while processing./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig'): No space left on device No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb
sudo dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic: linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic depends on linux-headers-2.6.32-45; however: Package linux-headers-2.6.32-45 is not installed. dpkg: error processing linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-generic: linux-headers-generic depends on linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic; however: Package linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-headers-generic (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic linux-headers-generic
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb (--install): unable to create /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig.dpkg-new' (while processing./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-45/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig'): No space left on device dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-45_2.6.32-45.104_all.deb
sudo apt-get autoremove
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic: Depends: linux-headers-2.6.32-45 but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.