Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 02:41:05 -0700 From: "adam palitz" <adampalitz@earthlink.net> To: "free bsd questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pulling my hair out Message-ID: <002801bfb02c$b58c8cc0$76fe1818@socal.rr.com> References: <001201bfb022$f0e0bc60$76fe1818@socal.rr.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Ok...so let me get this straight...the installer doesn't let me actually chosse the names of my partions...that part has to be standardized? what kind of sense does that make? if its going to put everything into / , and .usr why does it promt me for other partions in the first place...I understand of course that people would like to create other partions then just /, var, and usr, but I just don't get why the system wouldn't allow me to decide what files I want where also I didn't choose the auto-config because it didn't have an autoconfig I suppose thats strange? adam ----- Original Message ----- From: adam palitz To: free bsd questions Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:31 AM Subject: Pulling my hair out 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 /main 7gbs swap 200mgs what am I doing wrong? adam [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ok...so let me get this straight...the installer doesn't let me actually chosse the names of m</FONT>y partions...that part has to be standardized?</DIV> <DIV>what kind of sense does that make? if its going to put everything into / , and .usr why does it promt me for other partions in the first place...I understand of course that people would like to create other partions then just /, var, and usr, but I just don'<FONT face=Arial size=2>t get why the system wouldn't allow me to decide what files I want where</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>also</DIV> <DIV>I didn't choose the auto-config because it didn't have an autoconfig</DIV> <DIV>I suppose thats strange?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>adam</FONT></DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:adampalitz@earthlink.net" title=adampalitz@earthlink.net>adam palitz</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" title=freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>free bsd questions</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:31 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Pulling my hair out</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm trying to install 4.0release ....gets to the actual install and ives me the following message:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/mnt write fail file system full</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have the following partitions:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/ 97 mgs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/main 7gbs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>swap 200mgs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>what am I doing wrong?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>adam</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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