space for basic installation - hang

Hi,

while upgrading my IPC, I get out of space during base extraction.

tar: Failed write to file ./lib/libc.so.12.220 (No space left on device)

Yet before, on my / partition I have around 600MB free. I also tried 
installing only base sets, thinking to install X11 later...

I tried a trick to set the transfer directory on my home, which is a 
separate partition, but apparently helped on ly partially.

It worked for one or two hours, then at

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'base.tgz' (51914979 bytes).
  64% |**********************             | 32913 KiB  144.98 KiB/s    
02:02 ETA

just stayed this way, no progress... no update, no answer on Ctrl-C.
However, being on serial console, no kernel message ore anything else!

sending break through serial, got me

cpu_Debugger(0xf06c7800, 0x0, 0x1bb98d5f, 0xf04aec00, 0xf06c7900, 0xf4) 
at netbs
d:zsc_intr_hard+0x50
zsc_intr_hard(0x0, 0xf06c7814, 0xf06c7878, 0xf06c7864, 0xf06c7800, 0x8) 
at netbs
d:zshard+0x8
zshard(0xf06c77c0, 0xf0013a50, 0xf00, 0x8000e5, 0xf04a9818, 0xf06c77c0) 
at netbs
d:sparc_interrupt44c+0x134
sparc_interrupt44c(0x2827db, 0xf000e248, 0xf0002000, 0x0, 0xf06d4040, 
0xf048c3b0
) at netbsd:sched_curcpu_runnable_p+0x1c
sched_curcpu_runnable_p(0x0, 0x0, 0xf04a5800, 0x0, 0xf0002000, 
0xf06d4040) at ne
tbsd:idle_loop+0x98
idle_loop(0xf06d4040, 0xf06d4040, 0x1000, 0xf0002000, 0xf06c2fc0, 
0xf06d4040) at
  netbsd:lwp_trampoline+0x8

I did a reboot and retried from scratch. Syncing disk. did freeze! so I 
fear something at the disk-level did hang.

I get again a "no space left on device error"... in kern-GENERIC

As a test, I opened the shell from the installer, mounted both disks as 
the installer does, I get:

Filesystem     Size   Used  Avail %Cap Mounted on
root_device     11M   8.4M   2.2M  79% /
mfs:105        896K   1.0K   850K   0% /tmp
/dev/sd0a      873M   258M   571M  31% /targetroot
/dev/sd0d      1.1G   443M   598M  42% /targetroot/home



I restart once again....

tar: Failed write to file ./lib/libc.so.12.220 (No space left on device)
   3% |*                                  |  5888 KiB  235.44 KiB/s    
11:20 ETA[



tar: Failed write to file ./lib/libcrypto.so.15.0 (No space left on device)
  17% |*****                              | 28992 KiB  224.72 KiB/s    
10:10 ETA[



tar: Failed write to file ./usr/bin/openssl (No space left on device)
  47% |****************                   | 79424 KiB  218.19 KiB/s    
06:37 ETA


something looks fishy. I just left it running.... Skipping packages, all 
give such errors.


If I try and retry.... the diskspace remains, but extractions has errors.

Filesystem issues fsck doesn't detect? out of inodes even with such a 
standard installation?




Riccardo