From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 13:58:31 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 F121D37B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priorweb.be (nikita.priorweb.be [81.17.44.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7C9243FA3 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@abwaerts.be) Received: (qmail 30772 invoked from network); 25 May 2003 20:57:58 -0000 Received: from neo.priorweb.be (web@81.17.44.40) by nikita.priorweb.be with QMQP; 25 May 2003 20:57:58 -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 22:58:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <9193.134.58.253.193.1053896308.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> In-Reply-To: <20030525123057.GL90914@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> <20030525123057.GL90914@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:58:28 +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 20:58:31 -0000 Roman Neuhauser: >> So I'm lost. > > strange, I've been always fine with much smaller / partitions. Well - I was sure, too, that 2 gigs were quite, ehm, overkill. But I don't think it has anything to do with the size of the partition (although I'm going to try it with the autosizing, as another kind soul suggested)... I mean, FBSD should install *fully* in 2 gigs, so a root partition of that size is - hm... is there another word for "overkill"? :-) > what is the "I/O-thingy" you talk about? do you mean softupdates by > any chance? No no, I remember having read something about I/O-streams being controlled by the BIOS, and about an option to enable it at boot time. Let me see... On some systems, the BIOS does not activate the I/O ports and memory of PC devices, thus making them unusable. The hw.pci.enable_io_modes sysctl/boot loader variable (which defaults to 1, for ``enabled'') forces FreeBSD to enable these devices so that they can be used. But the phrase "pci" makes me think it might only be related to PCI devices :-) Since it defaults to enabled, however, that shouldn't be the problem in any case. Anyway, let's go again, with the autosizing. Thanks for your reply, Tom -- http://%77%77%77%2E%61%62%77%61%65%72%74%73%2E%62%65/