From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 13: 9:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 252C614C94 for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:09:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA05801; Mon, 3 May 1999 13:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 13:09:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Chris 0'Brien" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Post-install Distrobutions Additions In-Reply-To: <000501be9508$f1cbe0e0$69e6e3cf@lucy> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2 May 1999, Chris 0'Brien wrote: > I installed FreeBSD version 2.2.7 about 3 days ago on my 2.1gb hdd. All was > well, until I decided I wanted X windows. So, I plop in my CheapBytes cd and > head to the "Configure" section of the install program and select 9 > ("Distributions"). I scroll down to XFree86 and select all the XFree86 > distribution sets. Then, I head back out, select my media type (cd-rom), > and the installation process starts. But what's this... "Write error on > transfer to cpio process, try of 1024 bytes.". Also, at the bottom appears > "/: write failed, file system is full". I know it can't be full and quit > the installation, then issue the "df" command after logging in and find out > that "/" has 48% capacity, "/usr" has 10% capacity, and "/var" has 4%. You didn't specify the partitions to mount in the disklabel manager. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message