thx alot for helping but im affraid im way too much of a noob cuz I cant find no 'manage network connections' or 'sharing' kinda things.
Is that in Nokia PC Suite?

I too updated OTA (Greece) after i uninstalled a few apps cause it just refuced to do it all together when i first tried, it wasn't a rootfs issue, just some app that wasn't playing nice with the update...

Took a bit of time but it all went ok, no problems no reboots no drama this time around.

Good things i can report, the phone seems a bit more responsive, i like the new "global" search option directly from the hardware keyboard, as it's faster than fiddling with popup menus.
Ovi maps is much better and actually functional now, but still lacking that all important part of vocal directions.

On the third party apps i DEPEND on, epseakcaller works fine after i removed it and made a fresh install and my-menu works fine too, i find it much more usefull than anything nokia had to offer up untill now...

Bottom line, for me the N900 experinment is over, i bought this phone on January and 5 months down the road it is still missing things that are built in but never implemented, like the radio module (i don't care much about the transimter, even tho that's in there as well), video calling, now only implemented via Skype and Gtalk which is useless to me since i only use it to remotely check a 3G Cam i have setup...

I knew from the get go of all these problems and i do know that the N900 is firstly an Itablet and second a phone, still i am too old and have very little free personal time to be Nokia's beta tester...

I do love the fact that there are so many ppl in this community that are willing to put the time and effort to fix Nokia's problems without asking for anything in return and i have nothing but absolute respect for them and their work, but at the end of the day, it's all through trial and error for which as i said before i have no time....

I just hope the N8 comes in a more working order out of the box when it gets here...

ok this is bugging me now, OTA is asking me to back up my data via pc suit, but of course its not damn supported on ovi/ pc suit is it!
next i cant update via nsu because of the overclocked kernal so the app just closes
thirdly can manually flash because i have boot menu installed soo no maintance mode!, btw i cant find away to get rid of boot menu, its no use to me any more ...

gav

What? I don't have any nokia applications on my PC. Updating to 1.1 didnt cause me any problems like this.

i have 50 mb and its still not working

been there, done that. still not working.

This is been driving me crazy but i finally go it to update OTA

I didn't even know OTA was a choice it kept telling me to use nokia software updater. I installed it on 2 computers, tried the update, failed, flashed my n900 to orignal kernel, still failed

but what i think got it to work was that I uninsalled the following apps:
open arena, tick still, freoffice, brain party, and tux race
Thanks to the advice in the forums, and a few from this thread

jesus... after uninstalling 23 apps, it finally works.
i hope you dont mind that i didnt pay attention which app was the deciding one, as i was really starting to get angry.

no it doesn't. i can't update over the air. i try to but it just keeps saying in the prompt that i need to plug my N900 into a pc with a usb connector. why is it like that?

No matter how much I uninstalled or disabled catalogues, I could not get rid of the software updater message in the app manager.
Ended up moving /var/cache/apt/archives to /opt, after which apt-get dist-upgrade was perfectly happy. But the app manager still wanted the software updater.
So I did apt-get dist-upgrade from inside an ssh session over wireless LAN, which completed nicely, only asking me for confirmation for a single config file to be overwritten.
At the end of that, only one view was visible on my desktop, with all the widgets on top of each other, GSM functionality no longer worked and I couldn't establish a Skype call.
After a reboot, all seems well.

Not enough space in your rootfs, you will have to clear around 57/58mb to do it OTA, otherwise you will need to feflash either with NSU, or Flasher3.5.