I had the same problem with -current from a week or so
ago (1.5Z).  It's not the new / file-system on the hard
drive that is full, it's the in-kernel md file system.

I solved my problem by going back to a 1.5.1 sysinst
which was able to install my 1.5Z -current system with
no problems.

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Rich Dunkle wrote:
> 
> > The problem now is with sysinst:
> > 
> > uid 0 comm sysinst
> > on /: file system full
> 
> How big did you make that / partition?
> 
> Did you make separate /var and/or /usr partitions?
> 
> Or is everything being installed to your small root "/" partition?
> 
> I can't remember what the minimum needed is, but I believe that a couple
> hundred megabytes is more than enough.
> 
> (I should assume that you already checked this, but you didn't tell us.)
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
> 
> 

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