On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:53:23PM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> When I recently used the 1.6.1 CD to install NetBSD on an Alphastation
> 255, I concluded that the "/: file system full" message came from
> an attempt to write to the boot drive (the CDrom) which of course is
> full and not writeable.

No, it's sysinst trying to dump core in the ramdisk, which is too small.
I think this sysinst core dump has been fixed in current and 1.6.2_RC*

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