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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:45:10 +0100
From:      "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com>
To:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: install troubles right at the beginning
Message-ID:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010824174321.00ae6c10@www.maiatech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010824094207.B87889@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <5.0.2.1.2.20010824170751.00a736f8@www.maiatech.com> <5.0.2.1.2.20010824170751.00a736f8@www.maiatech.com>

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At 09:42 2001-08-24 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:15:51PM +0100, Michael A. Smith wrote:
> > I can boot the FreeBSD/alpha 4.3 CD-ROM just fine. I partition my drive
> > (using either the AUTO setting or my own settings), then I pick a "canned"
> > distribution. When things start to write to the drive I get errors such as:
> >   /mnt: write failed, file system is full
>
>The auto selection sizes might be too small now days.  Can you report the
>size of your system disk and what sizes for /, /usr and swap you picked
>and the AUTO selection gave you for your machine.

/ 200MB
swap 256MB
/var 200MB
/usr 8+GB

With either the AUTO settings or my own, the disk full errors start with 
the writing of the first byte.



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Michael A. Smith <msmith@code-fu.com>


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