Date: 21 Feb 2004 13:38:16 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Dave Vollenweider <radioguy@uni.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error when installing FreeBSD 5.2: " /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free" Message-ID: <447jygwa5j.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040219185016.5a46068e.radioguy@uni.edu> References: <20040219185016.5a46068e.radioguy@uni.edu>
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Dave Vollenweider <radioguy@uni.edu> writes: > Been trying to install FreeBSD 5.2 using the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images on floppies and proceeding with a network install via FTP on an old Acer Aspire with a Pentium 120 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM on a 1.6 GB hard drive (the second on the system; I have another OS on the other hard drive which shall remain nameless). > > The install goes fine until it begins to extract the files to the /usr directory, at which it then spits out this error multiple times: > > /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free > > and continues to do so whenever something is added to the hard drive during the installation. Curiously enough, though, the installation continues, even though I got that error message again and again when the base install was completed and the extra packages were being installed. I decided at that point to abort the installation. > > Is there any way for me to fix this, and if so, how can I do it? Try allocating all of the disk space to a single root partition. This will make backups a little more difficult, but not much. Alternatively, try a more minimal installation at first, and then add things later, when you can follow the inode usage more closely.
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