From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 19 04:30:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C73161065672 for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:30:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CA98FC0A for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4EC730D2.880D2.17327 ; Authuser web; 18 Nov 2011 23:30:10 EST Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:30:10 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Fbsd8 Message-ID: <20111119043010.GL8967@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Fbsd8 , Edward Martinez , FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Edward Martinez Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:30:11 -0000 According to Fbsd8 on Fri, 11/18/11 at 21:02: > > I think you have under sized /usr and the uncompress ran out of space > during the install. Start over again, wipe the disk clean (ie: delete > all slices)and re-allocate your slices with larger space allocations. Thanks. While this is an older Dell laptop as I said earlier, it still has a decent sized drive. And I am following the guidelines in the handbook at the beginning of section 2.6.5 Creating Partitions Using Disklabel: / (root) is 4 GB swap is 4 GB /var is 4 GB /usr is the rest of the disk - in this case 99 GB Bottom line, I think this is sufficient - it was for 8.2-RELEASE and -STABLE. Plus the handbook says "at least 8 GB" for /usr. Oh, and this is a "dangerously dedicated" drive housing only FreeBSD. That is, I'm using the entire disk for FreeBSD. Thanks again. Or, perhaps you are saying 4 GB is insufficient for /var? Since it seems to be complaining about not being able to write to "var/xxxx". Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|