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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 08:54:47 +0100
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: mb@atgnet.com (Moncef)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD installation
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As Moncef wrote:

> I'm trying to install FreeBSD (2.1.6-RELEASE) over a LAN. But when 
> he starts downloading files from the ftp server, I get the following 
> message: 
> /: write failed, file system is full    

You must have done something wrong, press Alt-F2, and look for more
messages.  It's not supposed to write any files to / (this is a small
memory filesystem only), but to /mnt where the harddisk is supposed
to be mounted.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)