From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 17:03:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29835 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:03:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.ihug.co.nz (root@smtp1.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29796 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wheely@ihug.co.nz) Received: from nicole (p24-max8.wlg.ihug.co.nz [209.79.142.216]) by smtp1.ihug.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA29763 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:02:40 +1200 Message-Id: <199807240002.MAA29763@smtp1.ihug.co.nz> X-Sender: wheely@pop.ihug.co.nz (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:02:49 +1200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: wheely Subject: Re: upgrade problems In-Reply-To: <19980723185234.55318@iii.co.uk> References: <35B75198.AD0EC9BB@yahoo-inc.com> <35B75198.AD0EC9BB@yahoo-inc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:52 AM 24/07/98 , nik@iii.co.uk wrote: >On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 08:07:04AM -0700, Brad Clawsie wrote: >> >> To do the upgrade, I ran /stand/sysinstall as root and went to the >> "upgrade" option on the front page. I assumed that this would do a >> rather painless upgrade for me, as the other tools in the sysinstall >> program work very well for a simple-mindedapproach to maintenance. >> >> Before I even go on, was I completely off my rocker using this utility >> for an OS upgrade? It just occured to me too going from 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7 >> As it stands, I walked away for a while and when I came back the utility >> told me it had ran out of swap space after it began to "pound on my >> root" or something. > >I don't understand that bit. It's possible that either you haven't got >enough swap space available, or that the size of your root ('/') >filesystem is too small. I'm not quite sure whats going on myself but it looks like it was installing the bin files to / according to sysinstall. It stopped with write errors after about 2 min - something like 6 - 10% into installing bin. I just went back into the filesystem (via fixit) to see the damage and I my / partition is at 106%. It looks like my /var and /usr partitions are untouched as they still have the same amount of free space. I have 32 MB mounted on / I mounted all my partitions at the disklabel editor. I think its fixable so I aint going to wipe things yet. I can still get into sysinstall etc. I used the 2.2.7 sysinstall (from floppy) Any other questions on it I am happy to answer. Also if anyone as any suggestions on a) finding where it has put the files on / (l can't find them) and b) getting to work properly would be great :o) wheely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message