From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 30 1:11:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from maiatech.com (maiatech.com [204.246.250.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C086A37B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 01:11:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from TECHY07.code-fu.com ([213.219.39.123]) by maiatech.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fAU9F8Z32281 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 04:15:09 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011130090436.00a881c8@athena.code-fu.com> X-Sender: msmith@athena.code-fu.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:12:12 +0000 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org From: "Michael A. Smith" Subject: Re: installation dies om 2100: / disk full In-Reply-To: <20011129193301.D3598@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20011129192320.C3598@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 19:33 29/11/2001 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > >> When I have the start screen of sysinstall it reads "/: wr" at the > bottom of > > >> the screen. On the second console I find a message similar to: > > >> > > >> gunzip: write failed: "/" file system full. > > >> > > >> This is all before I even touch sysinstall. Just start into the opening > > >> screen. I had this problem when installing FreeBSD 4.4 on my PWS433. I would get through the initial install questions and as soon as it tried to write anything to the disk, I got this error. It was not a matter of partition size -- I was wiping the drive and putting new and ample FreeBSD partitions on it. Through the list, some people had heard of some BSD disklabel oddities on Alphas that had previously had Linux installed on them (my machine had previously had SuSE Linux installed on it). They suggested that I wipe out the partition table. I did this using dd to copy /dev/zero over the first few MBs of the drive, obliterating the existing partition table. Then I put in the FreeBSD CD-ROM and everything went perfectly from there. Good Luck. -- "When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." -- Samuel Johnson -- Michael A. Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message