On Wed, 27 May 1998, Brad Ulreich wrote:

>I can guess what this means:
>
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         40960 Sat Mar 14 06:41 1998 ./usr/bin/lookbib
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7           164 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/neqn
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7           888 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/nroff
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         16384 Sat Mar 14 06:42 1998 ./usr/bin/pfbtops
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7        188416 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/pic
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         16384 Sat Mar 14 06:42 1998 ./usr/bin/psbb
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7            45 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/psroff
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7        114688 Sat Mar 14 06:41 1998 ./usr/bin/refer
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         16384 Sat Mar 14 06:09 1998 ./usr/bin/soelim
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         98304 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/tbl
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         32768 Sat Mar 14 06:41 1998
>./usr/bin/tfmtodit
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7        262144 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/troff
>uid 0 on /: file system full
>
>/: write failed, file system is full
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7          3918 Sat Mar 14 06:11 1998 ./usr/bin/vgrind
>-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         24576 Sat Mar 14 06:11 1998
>./usr/libexec/vfontedpr
>uid 0 on /: file system full
>
>but what I don't understand is, why? I followed the FAQ-O-MATIC and
>created an 80mb root, a 40mb swap, and a 220mb user. All was going quite
>well, until I tried to install the text.tgz. It wasn't installing into
>the root partition, so the root partition isn't the problem; it was
>installing into 'user'. Can 'user' be full?? 220mbs???

is this running under NetBSD or the installer under MacOS?  If it is
MacOS, then I would say that you haven't mounted the user partition before
doing the install so everything ends up in the root partition.

Now, how you mount other partitons under the installer is beyond me,
I only have one large partition, and I always do my installs from inside
NetBSD.

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