On Nov 14,  1:33pm, Robert Malcolm Speed wrote:
> Subject: YAHM (Yet Another Help Message)
> Err..... I think 'Help' is the watchword for today !
>
> Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong.
> I am trying to install BSD 1.2 Release (Beta-Release ?)
> My setup is RPC600 (33Mhz 610), 850 IDE Conner (~350 for BSD), 8+8+1MB,
> 6x Mitsumi (so called ATAPI) CD-ROM.
>
> Here's what happens;
> I boot from the floppy (Gunzipped image!), it goes through all the various
> blurb on startup, gets past the point where it asks you the dimensions of
> your HD - mine is;-
> 1656 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors, 512 Bytes/Sector
> BSD is starting at Cylinder 1001
> I specify 55 Cyl for the Root, 50 for the swap and the rest (500) for
> /usr
> I set the mount point to be /usr, It then says something about there being
> some trouble ("you're in do-do") if it doesn't work, then launches into
> transferring stuff and trys to create files on the HD, but instead I get
> screenfulls of something to the ilk of;-
>
> /:create /symlink failed, no inodes free
> tar: could not create file .profile : no space left on device
> UID 0 on /:file system full
>
> I could imagine something like this happening if there was no actual space
> left but this happens when using the boot floppy (1.44M !!!!)

A couple of questions:

1) Which device are you booting from? rd0?

2) Which version of RiscBSD are you using?
(if you downloaded it by ftp which directory did you take it from, if you
bought a CD then who did you buy it from and when?)

Cheers

Rob

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