Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:31:20 -0400 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "filesystem is full" during installation of 4.6.2-REL Message-ID: <20020817003119.GA302@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3D5D7155.3070505@cream.org> References: <EF8842E0-B13C-11D6-8D53-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx> <3D5D7155.3070505@cream.org>
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Yeah, after all it's pretty simple. The "Restart" thing in sysinstall
is a gross hack and doesn't really work.
You should have mentionned the restart issue in the beginning though,
it would have clarified a lot of things. :)
Maybe you could open a pr about this?
A.
On Fri Aug 16, 2002 at 10:40:37PM +0100, Andrew Boothman wrote:
> Antoine Beaupre wrote:
>
> >FWIW, I've had such problems with restarted sysinstalls. In fact, a
> >lot of the recent uses I had of sysinstall ended up with such an error.
> >
> >I think it is due to sysinstall not correctly mounting the configured
> >file systems. The behavior is quite erratic and i haven't been able to
> >pinpoint the exact problem but restarting the install, reformating the
> >partitions works usually ok.
>
> It looks like this is exactly what was happening.
>
> Everytime I tried to install, the DNS lookup on ftp.uk.freebsd.org would
> timeout the first time round (a seperate problem), and I needed to
> restart the installation each time. After going through the whole
> process several times, the DNS lookup worked first time round and the
> installation went without issue.
>
> It looks like sysinstall does get confused when asked to restart an
> installation.
>
> Many thanks to all who helped out.
>
> Andrew.
>
--
Imagination is more important than knowledge
- Albert Einstein
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