From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 00:30:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06329 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:30:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp2.ihug.co.nz (root@smtp2.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06321 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 00:30:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wheely@ihug.co.nz) Received: from nicole (p12-max10.wlg.ihug.co.nz [202.49.241.204]) by smtp2.ihug.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA05830 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:30:05 +1200 Message-Id: <199807240730.TAA05830@smtp2.ihug.co.nz> X-Sender: wheely@pop.ihug.co.nz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:30:15 +1200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: wheely Subject: Re: upgrade problems In-Reply-To: <199807240002.MAA29763@smtp1.ihug.co.nz> References: <19980723185234.55318@iii.co.uk> <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 12:02 PM 24/07/98 , wheely wrote: >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: > >>> 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'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) Well to answer my own questions: The first part of the bin distribution was installed under /mnt and /mnt/mnt. So all I had to do was delete enough of it to get my disk usage under 100% for /. The only damage was /kernel erased, a simple cp kernel.old kernel fixed that. So the good news is I have my old 2.2.5 system up and running again. The bad news is I am no closer to getting 2.2.7 installed. Question: Are the new binaries supposed to be installed to /mnt and then copied over or is it a bug? (I certainly did not intend to mount it as /mnt). wheely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message