From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 2:23:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www6.gmx.net (www.gmx.net [194.221.183.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 770C137B422 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 02:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25537 invoked by uid 0); 18 Sep 2000 09:23:08 -0000 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:23:08 +0200 (MEST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: binary upgrade 3.2 - 4.1 failed - file system full From: Usselmann.M@gmx.net MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <12250.969268568@www6.gmx.net> Message-ID: <25024.969268988@www6.gmx.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-Authenticated-Sender: #0000635256@gmx.net X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 1.5 (Global Message Exchange) X-Authenticated-IP: [192.44.136.113] X-Flags: 0001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:42:25 +0300 > From: Odhiambo Washington > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: binary upgrade 3.2 - 4.1 failed - file system full > #>I tried to upgrade my 3.2 system to 4.1 (with boot floppies from the > #>4.1 CD), but got a file system full error near the end of the copy of > #>the bin distribution. The new kernel could not be copied as well. > #>I can not any longer log on to the system, which boots into single > #>user mode. kernel.old gets loaded and /bin/sh abends. > Good that it boots. BTW was that an upgrade or a reinstall? You must > have been doing it the windows way ;-) These guys here advice otherwise. > If you check www.mostgraveconcern.com you'll find info on upgrading 3.x > to 4.x I used the upgrade option. > #>Is there any way that I can mount the / file system in order to delete > #>some files so that I can retry the upgrade? > Yes. > mount -u / > mount -a -t ufs But how do I get a command line to enter this? As I said before, I can not log on because the shell fails (probably because most of the binaries are already new, but kernel.old is loaded). Is there a way to get a command line when booting with the install floppies? Thanks, Manfred -- Manfred Usselmann usselmann.m@icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- I C G Informationstechnologie Consulting GmbH Bahnstr. 7, D-65835 Liederbach / Ts. Tel. +49 69 333 623, Fax +49 69 306 845 -------------------------------------------------- http://www.icg-online.de -------------------------------------------------- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message