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Subject: Re: Help with Staroffice 5.1 inst on FBSD3.2
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Symlnk /tmp and /usr/tmp should be OK.

I'd put it back to normal afterwards tho'

Adam.

Jim O'Donald wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.1 on FreeBSD 3.2.  I printed off the
> instructions from http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Misc/staroffice.html
> that was posted on -questions yesterday (Sept 22, 1999), but I am running
> into a problem with running out of drive space in /tmp.
> The actual error message is:
> 
> bash-2.03# pwd
> /usr/local/src/so51inst/office51
> bash-2.03# ./setup
> 
> /: write failed, file system is full
> 
> libvc1517li.so: write error (disk full?). Continue? (y/n/^C) Sep 23 05:17:51
> freebsd /kernel: pid 5120(setup): uid 0 on /: file system full
> Sep 32 05:17:51 freebsd /kernel: pid 5120(setup): uid 0 on /: file system
> full
> n       <-- This is my response to the Continue question
> 
> ./setup: Could not unpack file: /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.zip
> 
> bash-2.03#
> 
> The drive is a 2 GB SCSI which is dedicated to FreeBSD.  It is partitioned
> as follows:
> 
> bash-2.03$ df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a     39647    19628    16848    54%    /
> /dev/da0s1f   1887746   500386  1236341    29%    /usr
> /dev/da0s1e     19815     2237    15993    12%    /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> 
> Is there an environment variable I can set to tell the system to use a
> different directory as temp instead of using /tmp?  Or could I remove /tmp
> and link /tmp to /usr/tmp?  What kind of problems could I run into with
> that?
> 
> Hopefully I have provided enough information.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jim O'Donald
> 
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