From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 19 11:51:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC6737B401; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:51:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A3943E77; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:51:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10D58A4DB0; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:51:34 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:51:34 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: John Baldwin Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems with DP2 install floppies ... ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021119154931.N19853-100000@hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 'K, that is what I did ... One final issue on this first attempt ... when I go into 'partition' an existing drive, how do I get it to 'mount' my existing swap device? rightnow, I just deleted and created it, but that just doesn't sound ... safe ... On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 19-Nov-2002 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > > Just got everything up, made sure that it knew how to mount my file > > systems, watched it fsck those same file systems ... but as soon as it > > started to install, it reported out of space errors ... > > > > On ALT-F2, it looks like its trying to write to: > > > > ./usr/share/dict/.. > > > > instead of, what I believe its supposed to be: > > > > /mnt/usr/share/dict/.. > > > > which would explain why its running out of disk space, as its trying to > > write to the floppy ... ? > > > > Going to ALT-F4 and doing a df shows that everything appears to be mounted > > as expected (/mnt, /mnt/dev, /mnt/usr, etc) ... > > > > known problem, or did I screw up a step here? > > > > thanks ... > > Did you try to restart your install via Ctrl-C? If so, > don't, the restart stuff doesn't really work right. > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message