OK, I now have root access and have 58.7 meg free in rootfs (checked with command df -h).

Running apt-get upgrade reveals no conflicting packages

next step, running apt-get dist-upgrade gives me the message "E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/"

despite me having 58.7 meg free in rootfs.

BUT it also says "Need to get 101MB of archives". Are these archives downloaded to the same rootfs folder?

If so, then why would my requirement be so big, given that most people seem to think that 50 meg of rootfs is sufficient???

Im learning! Just very slowly.