On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote: > > I'm sorry I was not more specific. > > > > /var has 256MB > > /tmp has 256 > > / has 256 > > /usr has 4500MB > > newfs had been run on everything. > > > > ftp was passive. > > > > Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it > > anywhere. > > > > This occurs 3% of the way into the extration of base into / via > > ftp. I did burn a CD and install off of that in the end and the > > problem went away. > > > > > > -r > > > > On Saturday, 14 May 2005 at 16:19:27 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said > > > > > > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > > > > > > > > this was after doing a newfs on /. Has anyone run into this > > > > problem? > > it's not a problem of your fs layout. > > i ran into the same problem during 5.4/i386/ftp installation. i can't > recall the specific circumstances (probably i did something wrong), but > during the next attempt (after rebooting) it didn't reappear.
It's something that happens if you make a mistake in sysinstall and
attempt to re-do an earlier step. For unknown reasons, sysinstall
then ends up trying to install the system onto the memory-disk it uses
as the root filesystem, rather than onto the actual hard drive.
Cheers,
Matthew
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