write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Tue May 17 07:39:23 PDT 2005


On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0200, platanthera wrote:
> On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote:
> > I'm sorry I was not more specific.
> >
> > /var has 256MB
> > /tmp has 256
> > / has 256
> > /usr has 4500MB
> > newfs had been run on everything.
> >
> > ftp was passive.
> >
> > Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it
> > anywhere.
> >
> > This occurs 3% of the way into the extration of base into / via
> > ftp.  I did burn a CD and install off of that in the end and the
> > problem went away.
> >
> >
> > -r
> >
> > On Saturday, 14 May 2005 at 16:19:27 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > > It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said
> > > >
> > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full
> > > >
> > > > this was after doing a newfs on /.  Has anyone run into this
> > > > problem?
> 
> it's not a problem of your fs layout.
> 
> i ran into the same problem during 5.4/i386/ftp installation. i can't  
> recall the specific circumstances (probably i did something wrong), but 
> during the next attempt (after rebooting) it didn't reappear. 

It's something that happens if you make a mistake in sysinstall and
attempt to re-do an earlier step.  For unknown reasons, sysinstall
then ends up trying to install the system onto the memory-disk it uses
as the root filesystem, rather than onto the actual hard drive.

   Cheers,

   Matthew

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