Subject: Re: 1.4.3: file system full while installing filesets?
To: Carlos Murillo-Sanchez <cem14@cornell.edu>
From: John Taylor <jhtaylor@wam.umd.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/30/2000 16:48:25
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I am having trouble installing 1.4.3 on a Decstation 5000/133.
> I dd'd the installer to an old 40MB drive at SCSI ID 3 using an
> hp735 and I can succesfully boot from it on the Decstation.
> The installer correctly identifies the target drive (IBM0662,
> but I have also tried others w/o luck) and I am able to
> partition/disklabel/mkfs the drive . Then I can succesfully
> nfs mount the directory with the filesets and it starts
I had the same problem using nfs w/1.4.3. For a quick workaround, just use
the 1.4.2 installer with the 1.4.3 files.
I believe that this is an error in the code, but I've yet to actually look at
it.
John Taylor