FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
> After doing some more research, it seems that I am having the same
> problem than described by this person:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=4502

So you get the same "file system full" message and then a panic about 
init?

> however I really don't understand why I would need to move partitions
> around to allow the installer to even start? This machine has 2GB of
> RAM which I guess should be plenty enough to start the installer
> without swapping... The hard drive is a 80GB WD IDE drive. The
> machine is not configured to use any RAID.

It is pretty odd, I've installed FreeBSD on a laptop with 60Gb 
partitions and FreeBSD was last yet it worked fine..

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