From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 9 14:49:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F03D37B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727F243FA3 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 14:49:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmv@comcast.net) Received: from zero (pcp02139659pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net [68.48.30.216]) by mtaout01.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HA2009VACP4ZE@mtaout01.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:48:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from nester by zero with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18i0Fa-00005s-00; Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:48:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:48:37 -0500 From: Tom Vier Subject: Re: installer: / write failed device full In-reply-to: <3E45F344.7070202@ameritech.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: Tom Vier Message-id: <20030209224837.GA354@yzero> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i References: <20030209060819.GA452@yzero> <3E45F344.7070202@ameritech.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:20:52AM -0500, northern snowfall wrote: > >well, i put my drive on the sym controller (since it's not seeing my aic7x > >chips) and now when i starts downloading and extracting the binary sets it > >stops and says there's no space. this is obviously wrong, since just before > >that it does a newfs on an almost 9gig slice. > > > >has anyone else had this problem? this is on my alpha. > > > >also, only certain sites work from the installer. they work fine using > >ncftp, but most others hang while "looking up...". > > > I've also had this problem. Instead of installing into the mounted > target drive the > installer attempts to fill up /, which is just mfs. I have newfs bug is, > but, I've had > the same occurance. However, it doesn't seem to *do* anything... As far i just tried it w/o running newfs, and it still complains about / being full. it properly extracts the basic stuff to /mnt, but like you said, then tries to extract the sets to the mfs root. hasn't anyone else noticed this major bug? how in the world is anyone installing 5.0? > as the > "look up" hang: this occurs due to mishandled interrupts in the network > controller. > I don't think its driver specific. Once I installed a PCI device and at least it seems to work every other time. > configured the > IRQ to use a non-shared interrupt, the installer was A-OK. I used a Kingston there's definetly no irq sharing on this alpha. my card is an 8139. > KNE111TX/100B. > The base system is a 400mhz Xeon Intel CPU with 128MB RAM. ATA0.0 has a > 6449 MB WD. ATA1.0 has a LITE-ON CD. The only other card on the motherboard > is an Intel i740 AGP. The motherboard is an Intel 440BX AGPset GA-6BXC. -- Tom Vier DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message