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