Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 08:18:42 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tom Verbreyt <tom@abwaerts.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems: filesystem is (not) full Message-ID: <3ED0B4A2.90102@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> References: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be>
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om Verbreyt wrote: > New to the lists, new to FreeBSD, so please kindly forgive me if this > isn't the right place for my question (tough choice anyway, since > there are that many different lists...). You're in the right place. > However, I still want to give myself a try with FreeBSD, so I burned > the mini-ISO this morning, figuring the errors back then might have > been caused by bad installation media. However, the exact same > problem occurs time and again. 4.8, right? > Basically, installation is - ehm... smooth sailing, at least, until the point > where real installation should start. I create a slice, create partitions > and select a distribution set. Then, however, installation fails. These > are some random notes I took (copied): > > write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes) > unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0 > / : write failed, filesystem is full > > and on VT4: > > pid 131 (cpio), uid 0 inumber 171 on /: filesystem is full > > Those errors are quite clear to me, but I can't think of any reason > for the root filesystem to be full... I devoted all of my HD to FBSD, > so how could it possibly be full! :-s Anyway, at that point, I can't > exit the installer, a never-ending cycle of trying to retrieve the files > again and telling that it won't succeed starts, so basically, I then > just shut the power down and remain with a useless machine... :-) > > I don't recall my exact partitioning scheme, but root had about 1.5 > gigs, and /usr got 2,5. For a minute, I remembered the I/O-thingy > I read about in the book, but also that it defaults to "enabled". So > I'm lost. > > What am I doing wrong? Could someone please enlighten me...? I don't know what's going wrong, but (on a hunch) can you try the (a)uto option in sysinstall to auto-size the partitions and see if that works. If not - I apoligize for the time wasted. If it doesn't work you'll probably find it helpful to post hardware details, as this could be a hardware problem. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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