I get this too.  However, mkfs on a partition of 50MB or so works,
but if hold everything else constant and increase the size of the
partition to 100MB, I get the error described below.

Mounting a temporary 50MB filesystem on /tmp doesn't help.

Thanks,
Michael

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, mel kravitz wrote:

> With install floppies, failure at disk partition, '/partition full'
> -stop at fdisk -b command.
> -Mel
>