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- From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn)
- Subject: bootdisk/rootdisk install won't copy to hda
- Message-ID: <dosburn.724957532@cwis>
- Summary: install won't copy root files to hard disk
- Keywords: install copy root hda
- Sender: news@news.unomaha.edu (UNO Network News Server)
- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:05:32 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- After succesfully downloading and rawrite ing the BOOTIMAGE-0.98, and
- ROOTIMAGE-0.97 to floppies, I booted the system and went to install
- it on my hard drive. The installation appeared to go as described
- in the FAQ, etc, until it tried to copy the root files from floppy to
- /dev/hda1. Then I got nothing but a string of errors stating that:
- No Space Left on Device. HELP! What seems to be the problem here?
-
- The steps I followed are below. Note that the stuff regarding OS/2
- and the BootManager are straight out of the FAQ.
-
- 1 Created 3 partitions while installing OS/2 and the BootManger.
- Put the BootManager in the first partition, and OS/2 in the
- second contiguously. All three partitions are Primary type.
-
- 2 Booted Linux, logged in as install. (Yes, I did read all the
- docs in the intro log in first.)
-
- 3 Followed install script and changed the type ID of the third
- partition to 81 for Linux/MINIX using fdisk, as per the FAQ.
-
- 4 Used mkfs to make a file system using the entire 3rd partition.
- (Max block size as listed by fdisk. Later tried different
- sizes in attempt to fix. No luck. Used command:
- mkfs -c /dev/hda1 49878 ) Hardrive light came on, and
- everything appeared ok.
-
- 5 Install informed me that it was going to mount a root fs. At
- the prompt, I input /dev/hda1 for the root partition, and none
- for the /usr and the swap.
-
- 6 Hit return as prompted, and received the following:
-
- Installing /bin
- /bin/bash -> /mnt/bin/bash
- cp: /mnt/bin/bash: No Space Left on Device
-
- ....
- .......
- cp:....... No Space Left on Device.
-
- ....
- .......
- cp:....... No Space Left on Device.
-
- I have 48MB in that partition for the system. mkfs reported no bad
- sectors, etc. WHAT HAPPENED? After this err, the install program would
- not run properly anymore. Upon loggin in as root, I discovered a core
- dump in the INSTALL directory and removed it. After doing this, the
- install program appeared to run as it did the first time, so I tried
- various different things with fdisk and mkfs, and even doing it by hand
- from root, all with no success. I apparently did something though,
- because now the install program doesn't appear to work at all. It
- starts in the middle, right before the mkfs step. Anyway, I am going
- to re rawrite the rootimage, but I need to know what is going wrong
- here. Thanks in advance. :-)
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