Debian: Hard Drive Space Disappeard

This is the response from df -M

Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 -4670253298 1 0 8% /

Latest version of Debian installed on a 20 Gig HD with 1.5G as swap
partition.

I cannot install Java version 1.42 and get this message:

You will need atleast 102076 kBytes of Disk Free
Please free up the required Disk Space and try again

This is an old PC 200 Mhz Cyrex CPU. Old and faithful. Debian boots
just fine.
The 20G hard drive has been in this PC for at least three years with
Win98 running. Debian has been installed and works fine excect for the
space problem.

I really don't understand what the Used: 1, Available: 0, Use%: 8%
mean. And how does -4670253298 equate to a 20G drive (less a 1.5G swap
partition)?

I can copy large files (32M) to the drive through SAMBA, but cannot
install an updated version of Java (1.42 ... 1.1 is on it now ... I
want to practice Java Servlet programming).

I think it is some kind of Linux filesystem problem, but I don't know
where to look to solve this problem. I tried to install Mandrake 9.2,
but it crashes even in text install mode with the RAM memory set to
the 98M that I have. Is there a good (not too hard to install) version
of Linux that supports Java 1.42, MySQL, Apache and Tomcat (on this
old PC)? I don't care about a GUI at this point.

"Alfonso" <el_soneto@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> This is the response from df -M
>
> Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 -4670253298 1 0 8% /
>
> Latest version of Debian installed on a 20 Gig HD with 1.5G as swap
> partition.
>
> I cannot install Java version 1.42 and get this message:
>
> You will need atleast 102076 kBytes of Disk Free
> Please free up the required Disk Space and try again
>
> This is an old PC 200 Mhz Cyrex CPU. Old and faithful. Debian boots
> just fine.
> The 20G hard drive has been in this PC for at least three years with
> Win98 running. Debian has been installed and works fine excect for the
> space problem.
>
> I really don't understand what the Used: 1, Available: 0, Use%: 8%
> mean. And how does -4670253298 equate to a 20G drive (less a 1.5G swap
> partition)?
>
> I can copy large files (32M) to the drive through SAMBA, but cannot
> install an updated version of Java (1.42 ... 1.1 is on it now ... I
> want to practice Java Servlet programming).
>
> I think it is some kind of Linux filesystem problem, but I don't know
> where to look to solve this problem. I tried to install Mandrake 9.2,
> but it crashes even in text install mode with the RAM memory set to
> the 98M that I have. Is there a good (not too hard to install) version
> of Linux that supports Java 1.42, MySQL, Apache and Tomcat (on this
> old PC)? I don't care about a GUI at this point.

The df installed by SuSE 9.0 (2.4.22) does not have a -M switch. What is it
supposed to return?

JW