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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: sean_cull@hotmail.com
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: In v2.2.2, install fails with "cannot create /kernel"
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>Number:         4653
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       In v2.2.2, install fails with "cannot create /kernel"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 29 10:10:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 22 22:49:02 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 22 22:51:47 PST 1998
>Originator:     Sean Cull
>Release:        v2.2.2
>Organization:
Career Development Institute
>Environment:
Pentium 133, 32 megs ram, Gigabyte motherboard, 2.1 gig Western Digital hard disk
>Description:
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. But, after rebooting, it is clear that nothing
has been installed.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Perhaps it could be a bad CD???

>How-To-Repeat:
Novice install, from either CD or Dos partition.
>Fix:
No idea.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: hoek 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 22 22:49:02 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Joerg suggested that the root fs was too small.  This would be 
consistent with the evidence that the originator has not installed 
FreeBSD before.  No response from originator, which was requested 
(multiple times). 

Close and blame on insufficient / fs space. 
>Unformatted:
Oct 26, 1997: found the following followup in PR#4807.  Moved here
manually by fenner.

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"

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. ;-)
