From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 16:50:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F1816A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:50:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from cougar.uni.edu (cougar.uni.edu [134.161.1.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D29243D1D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:50:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from radioguy@uni.edu) Received: from localhost ([12.219.24.19]) by uni.edu (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30763) with ESMTPSA id <01L6SOF0C7028Y5IG5@uni.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:50:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:50:16 -0600 From: Dave Vollenweider To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20040219185016.5a46068e.radioguy@uni.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Error when installing FreeBSD 5.2: " /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:50:25 -0000 Hello, Been trying to install FreeBSD 5.2 using the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images on floppies and proceeding with a network install via FTP on an old Acer Aspire with a Pentium 120 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM on a 1.6 GB hard drive (the second on the system; I have another OS on the other hard drive which shall remain nameless). The install goes fine until it begins to extract the files to the /usr directory, at which it then spits out this error multiple times: /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free and continues to do so whenever something is added to the hard drive during the installation. Curiously enough, though, the installation continues, even though I got that error message again and again when the base install was completed and the extra packages were being installed. I decided at that point to abort the installation. Is there any way for me to fix this, and if so, how can I do it? - Dave V.