On May 10, Bernd Sieker wrote
> Hi,
> 
> I hope what can be found under 1.4/i386 on the ftp sites is not yet
> the final 1.4 release as I have discovered two severe problem, at
> least one of which did not turn up in the BETAs I tested.
> 
> 
> - The boot floppy boots fine, checks the filesystems when choosing
> 'upgrade', then says "populating filesystems [...]", then installs the
> bootloader (I think) and then says"
> 
>   "/: uid 0: write failed: file system full"
> 
> or similar. / is the installation ram disk, at this point etc
> has been backuped to etc.old and some files have been written to the
> file systems.
> 
> sysinst then exits.

Did you check if sysinst coredumped ? the / filesystem can be full because
sysinst crashed and dumped a core in the ram disk.

> Rebooting from hard disk after this starts up a sysinst, that is not
> usable at all. Overwriting /sbin/init from the base.tgz and moving
> etc.old back to etc makes the original 1.4-BETA system usable again. I
> don't know what would happen if the original system was 1.3.x.

I guess you didn't need to override init. the installation was just missing
files from /etc.

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