On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:56:35PM +0200, M. Possamai wrote:
> At 19:02 20-9-00 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 06:12:50PM +0200, M. Possamai wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This is probably a very simple question..
> > > I just installed NetBSD on my Alpha for the first time.
> > > It used to run FreeBSD.
> > > Now I'm searching for the kernel sources,
> > > where can I find them? and the sources for the rest of the system?
> > > I allready found the packagesources but that's all...
> >
> >Which version ?
> >For a release, for example 1.4.2, the alpha distrib will be in
> >pub/NetBSD-1.4.2/alpha, and the sources in pub/NetBSD-1.4.2/sources
> >For 1.5_ALPHA2, as we're in release cycle the sources are available from
> >pub/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src
> 
> found it
> thanx
> only I'm trying to unpack it but it goes wrong
> It starts fine... unpacks loads of files
> and than I get this
> 
> /: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
> tar: Could not create file usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/pci/pci_sgmap_pte64.c : 
> No space left on device
> usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/pci/pci_sgmap_pte64.h
> 
> and that on every file it wants to unpack..
> so that's a lot...
> I have no idea what that error means..
> I checked the space on the drive but that's not the problem..
> what is happening here?

What the message says: you have run out of inodes.. Inodes are 
(loosely speaking) the entities that keep the administration of a file.
When they are depleted you cannot create new files anymore, free data
blocks or not.

-- 
Wilko Bulte  	 					wilko@freebsd.org
							Arnhem, the Netherlands