Subject: Re: NetBSD/i386 Nov 17 1998 snapshot
To: Tracy J. Di Marco White <gendalia@iastate.edu>
From: Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@arresum.inka.de>
List: current-users
Date: 11/28/1998 10:49:29
On Sat Nov 28 04:33:27 1998, Tracy J. Di Marco White wrote:
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> }}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.
>
> The reason I'm getting the disk full message is because the seg fault was
> producing a core dump that filled up /. I newfs'd a floppy, mount'd it on
> /tmp, ran sysinst from /tmp, and now have a floppy with a sysinst.core on
> it. I tried a sysinst from 1.3.2F, that worked better but I don't have the
> rest of the tree to install with it. 1.3.2H & 1.3.2I versions I've tried
> seg fault. (I've got another machine I've built new versions on.)
1.3.2F, 1.3.2H and 1.3.2I doesn't exists, you mean 1.3F, 1.3H or 1.3I.
See http://localhost/htdocs/Releases/release-map.html#graph for more informations.
Bernd