Subject: Floating point exception during 1.4 upgrade...
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/01/1999 10:26:13
Hello,

Since my problem happened on the i386 platform, I am sending this to
port-i386 in addition to netbsd-help.

I have a 1.3.3 system that I tried to upgrade to 1.4 last night and during
the installation I saw these messages (sysinst was running from the boot
disk):

  uid 0 on /: file system full
  /: write failed, file system is full
  Foating point exception

There was a core dump for sysinst and at the command prompt I ran df.
The output for the root file system is:

  /dev/md0a  1375  1124  251 81% /

I then re-ran sysinst and got the following message:

  Help! No /etc/fstab in target disk wd0.

Anyone else seen this? Luckily, I did have a backup, and I was able to 
perform a new installation on the disk without problems. 

I have one more system that I need to upgrade, and I'm wondering if 
others have seen this problem, or know how to solve it. In case it
matters, the system is a Dell Pentium, 166Mhz, with 128MB memory.


Brian

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