From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 1:52: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6347E37B63F for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.113]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:56:24 -0700 Message-ID: <3907FF93.10D4660F@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 01:51:31 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: adam palitz Cc: free bsd questions Subject: Re: Pulling my hair out References: <001201bfb022$f0e0bc60$76fe1818@socal.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > adam palitz wrote: > > I'm trying to install 4.0release ....gets to the actual install and > ives me the following message: > > /mnt write fail file system full > > I have the following partitions: > / 97 mgs Since you didn't give it a /tmp, /var, and /usr, it probably tried to stuff 1.5GB into your 97MB file system. I have a 13GB slice divided up into 100MB /, 300MB swap, 500MB /var, 1.5GB /tmp, and the rest is assigned to /usr. It installed just fine :). Kent > /main 7gbs > swap 200mgs > > > what am I doing wrong? > adam -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message