From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 14:08:00 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 1C8C437B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:08:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4505443F93 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 14:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h4PL7oRp001114; Sun, 25 May 2003 17:07:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3ED130A6.6060201@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 17:07:50 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Verbreyt References: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> <3ED0B4A2.90102@potentialtech.com> <23006.134.58.253.193.1053895812.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> In-Reply-To: <23006.134.58.253.193.1053895812.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 21:08:00 -0000 Tom Verbreyt wrote: > 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? If this is your first time with FreeBSD, yes it's a bad choice. 5.0 isn't ready for mainstream use yet. The release was cut to make it available to as many testers as possible. 4.8 is the current production release and you'll find: a) More people are using it: thus better answers to questions and more testing. b) 5 still has some known problems in some areas The developers are hoping to have 5 production-ready by 5.1 or 5.2, but until then, you should probably avoid it unless you have the time and patience to debug, and deal with problems, etc. > > >>>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 > -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com