On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Kenneth R Westerback

 wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:37:40PM -0800, Chris wrote:

>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Alexander Hall  wrote:

>> > 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.

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.