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:
> 
> 
> }}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