On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Abhishek SINHA wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been using Tony Nugget's documents(Thanks for
> that Tony) and some other document s (suggested in the
> same webpage) for making a updated redhat installation
> CD. While everything goes on fine ; I get the
> following error while doing buildinstall
>
> mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
> Wrote /tmp/makebootdisk.tree.30765 (2056k compressed,
> 1402k free)
> cp: writing `/tmp/makebootdisk.tree.30765/vmlinuz': No
> space left on device
> sed: Couldn't close {standard output}
> sed: couldn't write 71 items to {standard output}: No
> space left on device
> sed: Couldn't close {standard output}
> sed: Couldn't close {standard output}
> sed: Couldn't close {standard output}
> /home/zoink/redhat-cd-7.3/redhat-7.3/buildinstall.tree.25749/mk-images:
> Failed to copy messages from
> /home/zoink/redhat-cd-7.3/redhat-7.3/RedHat/instimage/usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/boot/
> to /tmp/makebootdisk.tree.30765.
>
> My df -h shows that i have more than a GB of space on
> the machine.What am i missing???. Any suggestions will
> be very much appreciated.All i have done till now is
> to get updates from redhat's site.update old packages,
> generate a package list , hdlist and now am trying to
> do an buildinstall.I am wondering if i need to first
> upgrade anaconda????
If you'd made some debugging changes to the script(s), you would have
discovered you're running out of space on one of your floppies.
Use the original kernel for installing. Newer ones are bigger.
