Subject: Re: Installation problem with 1.6.2
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/01/2004 20:40:51
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:25:08AM -0400, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Sep 30,  8:51am, wouter@schoot.org (Wouter Schoot) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: Installation problem with 1.6.2
> 
> | On 2004.09.30 00:40:35 +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> | > >uid 0 comm sysinst on /: file system full
> | > >
> | > >/: write failed, file system is full
> | > >Segmentation Fault
> | > 
> | > Looks like there is no space on the ramdisk for sysinst to do its work.
> | > Why don't you try to install 2.0RC1?
> | 
> | Weird that there's not enough mem for a 256MB box.. Any errors in the bootup
> | sequence? 
> 
> Well, the ramdisk is pre-build with a certain amount of space. It does not
> dynamically resize depending on the size of the machine you are installing
> on.

I increased the size of the ramdisk for 2.0 - so that there is enough
space for a core dump of sysinst.  Then it is possible to debug the
core dump (provided you still have the build tree with the unstripped
binary).


	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk