Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:07:39 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: William Gordon Rutherdale <will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground Message-ID: <20090112170739.GA14646@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <496A9800.40205@utoronto.ca> References: <4968EDAF.40108@utoronto.ca> <3a142e750901101153x66d0099dxa871dce07df32175@mail.gmail.com> <49694724.6090705@utoronto.ca> <20090111165235.GA62524@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <496A7E0F.4060301@utoronto.ca> <20090111234532.GA86733@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <496A9800.40205@utoronto.ca>
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--Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 08:08:16PM -0500, William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > I'm afraid it's gone from bad to worse. >=20 > The 7.1 system may have recognised the ethernet adapter, but it seemed=20 > to fail writing to the hard drive. >=20 > I got this during installation: >=20 > Progress > Extracting GENERIC into /boot directory... >=20 > Message > Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) >=20 > /mtrt: write failed, filesystem is full. >=20 > ------------- >=20 > I think I allocated decent size partitions for /, /var, swap, /tmp,=20 > /usr. I made multiple attempts. Kept getting errors. The 'filesystem is full' message might imply that the partition for root is too small. What were the filesystem sizes you chose? There should be an item in the main install menu to start a shell. If you take that option and use the 'df -h' command, you should see the sizes of the mounted partitions. What happens if you just make one giant partition? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAklreNsACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUwXgCgj2K2iQ+iMj9x8rAQwKV7VS09 LUwAoISCykT5pV/Bg5usBJopYQmMPXq+ =zWJi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--
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