I've download and burned the 4.4 ISO from a local mirror and trying to

upgrade from 4.3 to 4.4 on i386. After the installer does the fsck

-fp, I get the following error:
uid 0 on /: file system full

/: write failed; file system full

cp: /tmp/hosts: No space left on device
I've also tried the 4.3 base CD and I get the same error. This has

never happened before. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
Here's my df -h output:
/dev/rd0a 1.7M 1.7M 38.5k 98% /

/dev/sd0a 68.9g 30.8g 34.7g 47% /mnt
Thanks for any help.

How big is your /etc/hosts file?

Yes!
Here's you're problem,... you're trying to install a whole OS onto a 1,7MB

partition.

I doubt he's trying to install stuff to the ramdisk...

Thanks all for your help.
My current OpenBSD 4.3 installation is sitting on / (/var, /home,

/root and everything else is under /) - only one partition. And I have

about 34.7g free in there. So my / is not small and has gigs of space

free available. Also, my /etc/hosts file is 666K.
Thanks for any further help.

The upgrade.sh script will copy the hosts file onto the ramdisk. A

666K hosts file is enough to be problematic I suspect.
.... Ken

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Kenneth R Westerback
Yes, you are right. It was the /etc/hosts file. The installation went

smoothly after removing lots of entries from there.
Most of the entries of my /etc/hosts file actually come from

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm - it basically blackholes

unwanted sites. Is there any way I can get around the upgrade issue

without having to remove entries from my /etc/hosts file? Thanks.

I don't know off the top of my head, but now that you've identified

the issue I'll put it on my list to look into.
.... Ken

adblock in the browser is far more flexible, faster, and just plain

works better.  If you really feel that giant lists of banned addresses

are the way to go, run a nameserver and do it there.

I compliment adblock with noscript and privoxy as well as block hole a

few domains in my names server.  And if you want to go even further, mix

in Dans Guardian.
Note, both privoxy and dansguardian are in ports.
Jim

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:13:08PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:

| On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Chris <atstake@gmail.com> wrote:

| > Most of the entries of my /etc/hosts file actually come from

| > http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm - it basically blackholes

| > unwanted sites. Is there any way I can get around the upgrade issue

| > without having to remove entries from my /etc/hosts file? Thanks.

|

| adblock in the browser is far more flexible, faster, and just plain

| works better.  If you really feel that giant lists of banned addresses

| are the way to go, run a nameserver and do it there.
Which gives you the added benefit of being able to "share" these

results with other computers in your network by configuring them to

use said nameserver. Saves you from distributing this hosts file to a

couple of machines.
(I second Ted on the suggestion to use adblockers in your browser

though).
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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                 http://www.weirdnet.nl/

Cheap easy fast way is to move /etc/hosts somewhere else prior to

upgrade.  Not sure if things like sysmerge will help
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