Re: Kernel Source install (post config) fails

From: John Smith (jsmith_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:27:08 +1000

There is plenty of physical space left on my / file system (GBs) - the db
command shows that only 6% of its capacity has been used. When I boot from
the install CD and try and install the kernel source code (post install
config), I believe the error (/: write failed, file system is full) is
because my partition ad2s2a is not mounted as the / file system (ad2s2a is
not in the /dev directory). Can I just boot my system from the hard drive,
mount the install CD, then launch the FreeBSD 'GUI' install to install the
source code? If so, once I have mounted the CD, how do I launch the FreeBSD
'GUI' install program?

John.

"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> wrote in message
news:WwTDc.22062$Lh.1877@okepread01...
> In article <40dfdee6$0$89117$c30e37c6@lon-reader.news.telstra.net>,
> John Smith <jsmith@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >I have a running 4.9 RELEASE system. I am trying to do a post install
> >config, to install the source code for the Kernel to build a new Kernel.
> >However when I select the Kernel Source from the FreeBSD 4.9 Install
CD#1,
> >it says that it can't write to my system because the disk is full (/:
write
> >failed, file system is full). The slice my / partition is on has plenty
of
> >room. I haven't mapped /usr specifically to any other slice, so it
should
> >have access to all the free space under the partition / is on. In normal
> >operation my / file system is on slice ad2s2a. Has anyone got ideas as
to
> >why the install can't write the source files to the hard disk?
>
> Well, apparently, the file system sysinstall is trying to write to
> is...full. :-)
>
> df/mount output?
>
> --
> Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"

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