Installation problems: filesystem is (not) full

Tom Verbreyt tom at abwaerts.be
Sun May 25 13:50:18 PDT 2003


Bill Moran:

>> However, I still want to give myself a try with FreeBSD, so I burned
>> the mini-ISO this morning, figuring the errors back then might have
>> been caused by bad installation media. However, the exact same
>> problem occurs time and again.
>
> 4.8, right?

No - 5.0. Is that a bad choice?

<errors>

>> What am I doing wrong? Could someone please enlighten me...?
>
> I don't know what's going wrong, but (on a hunch) can you try the (a)uto
> option in sysinstall to auto-size the partitions and see if that works.
> If not - I apoligize for the time wasted.

Ah well, time isn't the issue :-) I'll give it a shot and keep you posted.

> If it doesn't work you'll probably find it helpful to post hardware
> details, as this could be a hardware problem.

Oh boy... :( And I always thought, well, OpenBSD goes fine, any
Linux distribution goes fine, even Windows goes fine :-), so FreeBSD
shouldn't be a problem.

Anyway. I'll try it with the autosizing.

Thanks for the advice,
Tom

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