Subject: Re: are /dist/*_obsolete files on floppy install root needed?
To: John Refling <refling@stanfordalumni.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/15/2003 21:34:03
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:25:52PM -0700, John Refling wrote:
> 
> I have had some problems installing 1.6.1 on i386 machines:
> 
> The install would go well, then at what I think is the
> last screen, pressing OK, which normally returns you to
> the main Install menu, would result in a segmentation
> fault: / file system full.  A df did indeed show 100% on
> /.
> 
> If I repeated the install, but involked a shell first and
> removed /dist/*_obsolete, I had 92% (instead of 94%) going
> into the install, and it completed successfully.
> 
> So are /dist/*_obsolete files needed?

Yes, they are used in the upgrade case.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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