From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 7: 5:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E794537B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:05:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9096743F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 07:05:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2PF6VqE018135; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:06:31 +0100 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:03:14 +0100 Received: from intra241.intrasoft.lu (212.190.217.170 [212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id H3BT0HW5; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:03:04 +0100 From: CARTER Anthony To: John Straiton , "'John McClure'" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Intrasoft Subject: Re: 5.0 In-stalls Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 16:10:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <003701c2f2de$56fa4920$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> In-Reply-To: <003701c2f2de$56fa4920$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303251610.40346.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-21.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As default during install i believe that root is 256MB...maybe try that... Anthony On Tuesday 25 March 2003 15:53, John Straiton wrote: > > But the install breaks telling me that the filesystem > > is full while trying to complete an extract. I > > allocate 128MB for the root mount, but when I allocate > > more, it still breaks but on a later extract, so the > > install seems to proceed futher. I know I'm missing > > something obvious. > > Sounds to me that you've got the problem already narrowed down. Have you > tried using a much bigger / just to test (doesn't take long to get to > that point of the install)? > > My installed 5.0 machines only use 51M of the / partition once up, but I > don't have any with less than 500MB in / so I can't say what the minimum > is to install. > > John Straiton > Jks @clickcom.com > Clickcom, Inc > 704-365-9970x101 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message