From j@uriah.heep.sax.de Sun Oct 19 11:21:10 1997 Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA22819 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA26175; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:21:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id UAA01383; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:11:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <19971019201124.AQ14006@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 20:11:24 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) To: sean_cull@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199709291702.KAA22876@hub.freebsd.org>; from sean_cull@hotmail.com on Sep 29, 1997 10:02:44 -0700 Subject: Re: In v2.2.2, install fails with "cannot create /kernel" References: <199709291702.KAA22876@hub.freebsd.org> >Number: 4807 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Re: In v2.2.2, install fails with "cannot create /kernel" >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 19 11:30:01 PDT 1997 >Closed-Date: Sun Oct 26 20:47:50 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: Sun Oct 26 20:49:07 PST 1997 >Originator: >Release: >Organization: >Environment: >Description: >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->freebsd-bugs Responsible-Changed-By: steve Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 20:03:59 PST 1997 Responsible-Changed-Why: Misfiled PR. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: fenner State-Changed-When: Sun Oct 26 20:47:50 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Bug followup without GNATS ID in subject line which opened a new, bogus PR. >Unformatted: As sean_cull@hotmail.com wrote: (Please, limit your line length to a sane value.) > I've never done this before, so please bear with me. I recently got > v2.2.2 of FreeBSD. When I try to install it from CD or Dos > partition, no matter which installation method I use, when I start > the installation procedure, I get "cannot create /kernel" and then > the install halts, and it returns back to the install screen, saying > that installation was completed, but with some errors. Is it possible that your root filesystem got full during installation? You can probably best check this by switching to Alt-F4, and typing `df -k' there. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)