Subject: Re: NetBSD/i386 Nov 17 1998 snapshot
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Tracy J. Di Marco White <gendalia@iastate.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/19/1998 21:30:49
}Hmm, I've seen the "disk full" error message with sysinst several times.
}Everytime it was because the disklabel/newfs/mount *failed* and nothing
}was actually mounted. Then sysinst happily tried to copy files over
}to /mnt, which obviously filled up the ramdisk. Drop to a shell and
}verify you can mount the partitions off of the hard disk.
It hasn't asked me about disklabel'ing the disk yet, it had just
told me I only had wd0, so it assumed I wanted to use it. I choose
'ok', and I get 'uid 0 on /: file system full', sysinst segfaults, and
I'm at a prompt (and the terminal is rather messed up, have to 'stty echo'
to see what I'm typing). From previous attempts at sysinst, I thought
it should ask me about the disk layout I want before it tries to mount it?
I am choosing the first option, install NetBSD. I suspect this would
be much simpler for me to do by hand, but as long as no one minds helping
me through this, I'd like to make it all work with sysinst. Any help
so I can be more of more help would be appreciated, too.
Thanks
Tracy J. Di Marco White
Project Vincent Systems Manager
gendalia@iastate.edu