From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 18:59:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 C0B8616A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:59:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schpeko@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F46843D69 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:59:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from schpeko@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so922624wxc for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:59:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=PCUDU88/RitWefGpxQlpCPcp0rirOh9F0XxmSze5Xn2kjFAjeNwcqKSbidjUIOq9FspkjLbP171ImborGCciaggRp1jH0mizbe9tGcMr4oaGVJsIeQ/LSxXNlTVIy845kb5JWIb0WHgoBWkMX96A1vJoPWIthIK8/gFQDrUiKmY= Received: by 10.70.94.4 with SMTP id r4mr3943603wxb; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.89.10 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:59:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6334c6e20511221059m7aa6ef57k2a3990b66e8fda44@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:59:03 +0100 From: Martin Zibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200511221802.jAMI2TvO014547@casselton.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6334c6e20511220906g42c2de27ibf6ffe1fff60cbc1@mail.gmail.com> <200511221802.jAMI2TvO014547@casselton.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: /: create/symlink failed, no inodes free X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:59:08 -0000 On 11/22/05, Mark Tinguely wrote: > > Here is what I do: > > Choose the Custom option (top menu) > Choose Partition > A Use Entire Disk > (if the Disk Geometry does not look correct, then you may have > BIOS geometry issues). Assuming the FreeBSD partition is 4/8 G, exit > Q > I like the standard MBR boot manager > Choose Label > D (delete any unix partitions that are there) > C (create partitions for / (256 M) /usr (2 GB) /home (rest)) > make sure the newfs is going to be run > Q (quit) > Choose the Distributions (as a test, just choose the binaries and docs > only) > Choose commit when i do this everything looks ok.. press commit - i choose ftp server and then it hangs up resolving the ip.. if i press ctrl+c it prompts for restart/abort/continue install. choose restart and then i do everything fro= m the beginning like you told me - AND IT WORKS OK- it even resolvs ip! both configurations are the same - no changes made! but for the first time it doesn't work, for the second it does. very very wierd thing ;) as i said, i have used 2 diferent disks, 2 diferen= t cdroms - all the same! any ideas? i'll try to install from cd tomorrow.. i hope it goes ok. thanks guys for the help.. but you should really see this, because in all 5 years that i've used freebsd i never saw such thing. if anyone comes to any ideas, please post it here. thanks again, martin The only place that I can think the install program should fail is if > the Disk Geometry is not being read correctly. >