From: dosburn@cwis.unomaha.edu (Don Osburn) Subject: bootdisk/rootdisk install won't copy to hda Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:05:32 GMT
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. :-)