Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 23:12:35 -0400 From: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "filesystem is full" during installation of 4.6.2-REL Message-ID: <20020816031235.GA411@smnolde.com> In-Reply-To: <3D5C5F89.8050006@cream.org> References: <3D5C5F89.8050006@cream.org>
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Andrew Boothman(andrew@cream.org)@2002.08.16 03:12:25 +0000: > [I was going to post this to -questions but figured that most discussion > of the ata problems took place on -stable and most interested people > would probably be reading -stable] > > Hi everyone! > > I've got a strange problem installing 4.6.2-RELEASE on an ageing K6-233 > system. Searching the archives and googling hasn't turned up anything > useful. > > On first boot of the 4.6.2 floppies I started getting the "READ_BIG" > errors on the systems cd-rom drive. Fortunately, I had no plan to use > the drive, so I simply disconnected it, and a subsequent boot went > flawlessly. > > However, during an FTP install from ftp.uk.freebsd.org when it reaches > 'chunk 4' the system displays a message saying "Write failure on > transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 240260 bytes)" and "/: write failed, > filesystem is full" > > VTY1 shows : > . > . > bin/ls > bin/mkdev > bin/mv > pid 72 (cpio), uid 0 on /: filesystem is full > /stand/cpio: write error: No space left on drive > /stand/gunzip: failed fwrite > > A quick /stand/df on VTY4 shows 101% capacity on /dev/md0c mounted on / > but just 1% capacity on /dev/ad0s1a mounted on /mnt. I've never delved > this far into a sysinstall installation before, but it sounds like it is > failing on unpacking files into a memory disk? What could have caused > this problem? > > A reboot and going through the installation process again brought > exactly the same failure in exactly the same place. > > Many thanks for any pointers and help. > > Andrew. > md0c is a memory disk and you're not actually writing to your hard drive, which would be ad0 or ad1. -- Scott Nolde GPG Key 0xD869AB48 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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