From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 13:50:18 2003 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 7F14537B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priorweb.be (nikita.priorweb.be [81.17.44.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D24FA43F3F for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@abwaerts.be) Received: (qmail 26496 invoked from network); 25 May 2003 20:49:42 -0000 Received: from neo.priorweb.be (web@81.17.44.40) by nikita.priorweb.be with QMQP; 25 May 2003 20:49:42 -0000 Received: from bones.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be ([134.58.253.193]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user tom@abwaerts.be) by webmail.priorweb.be with HTTP; Sun, 25 May 2003 22:50:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <23006.134.58.253.193.1053895812.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> In-Reply-To: <3ED0B4A2.90102@potentialtech.com> References: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> <3ED0B4A2.90102@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:50:12 +0200 (CEST) From: "Tom Verbreyt" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Installation problems: filesystem is (not) full 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: Sun, 25 May 2003 20:50:18 -0000 Bill Moran: >> However, I still want to give myself a try with FreeBSD, so I burned >> the mini-ISO this morning, figuring the errors back then might have >> been caused by bad installation media. However, the exact same >> problem occurs time and again. > > 4.8, right? No - 5.0. Is that a bad choice? >> What am I doing wrong? Could someone please enlighten me...? > > I don't know what's going wrong, but (on a hunch) can you try the (a)uto > option in sysinstall to auto-size the partitions and see if that works. > If not - I apoligize for the time wasted. Ah well, time isn't the issue :-) I'll give it a shot and keep you posted. > If it doesn't work you'll probably find it helpful to post hardware > details, as this could be a hardware problem. Oh boy... :( And I always thought, well, OpenBSD goes fine, any Linux distribution goes fine, even Windows goes fine :-), so FreeBSD shouldn't be a problem. Anyway. I'll try it with the autosizing. Thanks for the advice, Tom -- http://%77%77%77%2E%61%62%77%61%65%72%74%73%2E%62%65/