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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
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>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:        
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>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
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