Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 17:48:37 -0500 From: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installer: / write failed device full Message-ID: <20030209224837.GA354@yzero> In-Reply-To: <3E45F344.7070202@ameritech.net> References: <20030209060819.GA452@yzero> <3E45F344.7070202@ameritech.net>
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:20:52AM -0500, northern snowfall wrote: > >well, i put my drive on the sym controller (since it's not seeing my aic7x > >chips) and now when i starts downloading and extracting the binary sets it > >stops and says there's no space. this is obviously wrong, since just before > >that it does a newfs on an almost 9gig slice. > > > >has anyone else had this problem? this is on my alpha. > > > >also, only certain sites work from the installer. they work fine using > >ncftp, but most others hang while "looking up...". > > > I've also had this problem. Instead of installing into the mounted > target drive the > installer attempts to fill up /, which is just mfs. I have newfs bug is, > but, I've had > the same occurance. However, it doesn't seem to *do* anything... As far i just tried it w/o running newfs, and it still complains about / being full. it properly extracts the basic stuff to /mnt, but like you said, then tries to extract the sets to the mfs root. hasn't anyone else noticed this major bug? how in the world is anyone installing 5.0? > as the > "look up" hang: this occurs due to mishandled interrupts in the network > controller. > I don't think its driver specific. Once I installed a PCI device and at least it seems to work every other time. > configured the > IRQ to use a non-shared interrupt, the installer was A-OK. I used a Kingston there's definetly no irq sharing on this alpha. my card is an 8139. > KNE111TX/100B. > The base system is a 400mhz Xeon Intel CPU with 128MB RAM. ATA0.0 has a > 6449 MB WD. ATA1.0 has a LITE-ON CD. The only other card on the motherboard > is an Intel i740 AGP. The motherboard is an Intel 440BX AGPset GA-6BXC. -- Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net> DSA Key ID 0xE6CB97DA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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