Yep, me too.  I assumed it was because I didn't have a FPU (old 386),
but obviously that isn't the case.  Has ANYONE done a SUCESSFUL upgrade
to 1.4 using sysinst?  Just untar the tarballs directly.

Rick

Brian Stark wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Since my problem happened on the i386 platform, I am sending this to
> port-i386 in addition to netbsd-help.
> 
> I have a 1.3.3 system that I tried to upgrade to 1.4 last night and during
> the installation I saw these messages (sysinst was running from the boot
> disk):
> 
>   uid 0 on /: file system full
>   /: write failed, file system is full
>   Foating point exception
> 
> There was a core dump for sysinst and at the command prompt I ran df.
> The output for the root file system is:
> 
>   /dev/md0a  1375  1124  251 81% /
> 
> I then re-ran sysinst and got the following message:
> 
>   Help! No /etc/fstab in target disk wd0.
> 
> Anyone else seen this? Luckily, I did have a backup, and I was able to
> perform a new installation on the disk without problems.
> 
> I have one more system that I need to upgrade, and I'm wondering if
> others have seen this problem, or know how to solve it. In case it
> matters, the system is a Dell Pentium, 166Mhz, with 128MB memory.
> 
> Brian
> 
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