netbsd-help: Re: Floating point exception during 1.4 upgrade...

Subject: Re: Floating point exception during 1.4 upgrade...
To: Brian Stark <bstark@siemens-psc.com>
From: Bill Squier <groo@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/01/1999 13:10:12

> I have a 1.3.3 system that I tried to upgrade to 1.4 last night and during
> the installation I saw these messages (sysinst was running from the boot
> disk):
> 
> uid 0 on /: file system full
> /: write failed, file system is full
> Foating point exception
I'd just like to add a "me too" on this. Although I remember seeing vague 
things about the "upgrade" option losing in general with sysinst. System is a 
PPro/200, 192MB of memory.
I'm a good citizen, having stuff backed up on DAT, so I just wiped the disk 
and reinstalled-- which in general is how I like to "upgrade" operating 
systems anyway.
In addition, on the syinst-14.fs for SPARC's a fresh install goes well, but 
always seems to report "Root disk failed a basic sanity check, are you sure 
you installed all the sets?" or somesuch. The install works fine.
-- 
Bill Squier (groo@cs.stevens-tech.edu)
http://www.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~groo
Ph: (201)216-5486 Fax: (201)216-8249