Has the Procedure for Regenerating A FreeBSD Installation Disk Changed?

[Roland Smith]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 08:42:57AM -0500, Martin G. McCormick wrote:
>  Roland Smith writes:
> > Although I don't have FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso around, I 
> > tried
> > the
> > tar command with FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso and that unpacks
> > just
> > fine.
> 
> 	I've got to be doing something wrong. The system I just
> tried this on is
> 
> FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p12 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr 29 22:02:25 UTC 2014
> 
> I downloaded the FreeBSD10 image and ran:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mkdir headless
>  tar -C headless -pxf FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso

Is this a shell script? What happens when you run the commands in the shell
instead?

> This produced a similar flood of "Can't create" errors and it
> doesn't matter in this case if I do this as me or root.

You have enough space, but do you also have enough inodes? You can use “df -ih”
to check that.

Do you perhaps run into other limits, such as open files (login.conf) or disk
quotas?

Another thing to try is use one or more “-v” flags in your tar command. Maybe
that will yield extra details *why* file creation fails.

> 	I looked up the -C option for tar and it uses the next
> argument as the top of the tree for the file extractions. In
> this case, that is the directory headless and all that is
> working as expected.

Yeah, that should be OK.


Roland
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