Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com> writes:
> I have a 1.3.3 system that I tried to upgrade to 1.4 last night and during
> the installation I saw these messages (sysinst was running from the boot
> disk):
> 
>   uid 0 on /: file system full
>   /: write failed, file system is full
>   Foating point exception

Yup.  it croaked, tried to dump a core, filled up the root 'md', etc.


> I then re-ran sysinst and got the following message:
> 
>   Help! No /etc/fstab in target disk wd0.

If i recall, this is because it moves your hard disk's /etc to
/etc.old (or something like that), then puts some new stuff into /etc
which isn't quite as complete as it needs to be.


I filed PR 7608 (see
http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=7608 ) to
document these problems with i386 1.4 sysinst.

PR 7607 contains some other annoyances i found in sysinst while doing
the upgrade, as well.

In the end, i upgraded with:

foreach file (base.tgz comp.tgz [g-z]*)
gzip -dc $file | (cd / ; tar -xvpf - --unlink)
end

8-)



cgd
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Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.