From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 16 17:31:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B8D37B400 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aeimail.aei.ca (aeimail.aei.ca [206.123.6.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A385143E4A for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:31:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx) Received: from shall.anarcat.ath.cx (ecs9z02pc3yvgt5a@dsl-59-246.aei.ca [216.221.59.246]) by aeimail.aei.ca (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g7H0VR505159; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (lenny.anarcat.ath.cx [192.168.0.4]) by shall.anarcat.ath.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id D7E2C426; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:31:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lenny.anarcat.ath.cx (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:31:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:31:20 -0400 From: The Anarcat To: Andrew Boothman Cc: "Scott M. Nolde" , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "filesystem is full" during installation of 4.6.2-REL Message-ID: <20020817003119.GA302@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> References: <3D5D7155.3070505@cream.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D5D7155.3070505@cream.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > >FWIW, I've had such problems with restarted sysinstalls. In fact, a=20 > >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=20 > >file systems. The behavior is quite erratic and i haven't been able to= =20 > >pinpoint the exact problem but restarting the install, reformating the= =20 > >partitions works usually ok. >=20 > It looks like this is exactly what was happening. >=20 > Everytime I tried to install, the DNS lookup on ftp.uk.freebsd.org would= =20 > timeout the first time round (a seperate problem), and I needed to=20 > restart the installation each time. After going through the whole=20 > process several times, the DNS lookup worked first time round and the=20 > installation went without issue. >=20 > It looks like sysinstall does get confused when asked to restart an=20 > installation. >=20 > Many thanks to all who helped out. >=20 > Andrew. >=20 --=20 Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9XZlXttcWHAnWiGcRAlwQAJ9IM4gXy1FFYHqGg/WpXW2J0WN9hQCdGGNQ oiuYARllH6SscIQN9v1Dqng= =SKUt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message