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From: Joachim Kuebart <joki@kuebart.stuttgart.netsurf.de>
To: flame@access.kuwait.net
Subject: RE: Root file system
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On 29-Apr-97 at 19:25:11 Flame wrote:
>Dear Sir,
>
>I had to reintall BSD coz the system keeps hanging when i try to 
>install the additional package. 

What package are you trying to install? A reinstall should _never_ be
necessary. Tel us more about that error.

>Iam using FreeBSD 2.2.1 and doing a Dos installation.
>I tried to re-install BSD again but 
>encountered a strange error at the initial process of installation:
>
>Copy returned error status 1!
>Couldn't clone the boot floppy onto the root file system
>
>on the debug screen:
>copying boot floppy to /stand on root file system
>/mnt/stand
>/mnt/stand/help
>
>pid: ic (pio): uid 0 on /mnt: file system full
>cp 10: write error: No space left on device
>
>the partition of the harddisk as follows:
>/    85M
>/usr 400M
>swap 20M

I believe maybe your file system is full ;) Seriously -- it is not a
recommended way of reinstalling a system to just re-run sysinstall. You will
have to prepare your disk, e.g. delete your old root system.. But as I said
above: a reinstall shouldn't be necessary, once the system is up and runing.

>
>I can't understand why this happens now after a successfully previous 
>installations!
>
>
>    v
>  vv   v
> v vvvv v
> .VVVVVV.
> //FLAME\\
> ^^^^^^^^^

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