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From: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek)
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, sef@kithrup.com
Subject: Re: Whee, another fun one
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another good way to give  the pkg stuff more work space is with
the PKG_TMPDIR environment variable. It works nicely and is almost
mandatory for emacs :-)
perhaps during the install it would be good to set this since
the emacs install must fail for most people.

Jim Leppek
 
> From owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Fri Jul 14 20:45:18 1995
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:45:04 -0700
> From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@kithrup.com>
> To: hackers@freebsd.org
> Subject: Whee, another fun one
> Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org
> 
> This one is *really* neat.
> 
> I was trying to add emacs, for various reasons.  But pkg_add wouldn't let
> me, because my /tmp was too small, even after I added MFS to my kernel and a
> 30MByte memfs off of /dev/sd0s1b (same as swap).  So, I tried using the -t
> option; it still didn't work.  So then I started debugging it.
> 
> Since I wasn't working on the console, I have no idea what happened, but my
> login session suddenly hung.  I thought it was just the normal delay I'd
> been seeing (and reported last night), but, after a few minutes, I decided
> that was pretty unlikely, and took a look at the console.
> 
> It had rebooted (a panic, I assume), and was waiting for me to insert a
> bootable floppy -- for some reason, the MBR has disappeared, and the hard
> disk is no longer a "bootable disk"!
> 
> So... this is bad.  Also, how do I fix it, without reinstalling the whole OS
> again? ;)
> 
> Sean.
>