Those Pre-Install Blues
Tim Brown
tim at comcon.UUCP
Tue Dec 11 07:58:27 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec5.013027.19510 at rice.edu>, johnson at horta.rice.edu (Bruce Johnson) writes:
>
> We just got a model 530 in and appear to have been bitten
> by the same "feature" with pre-installed software. Guessing our
> way through installation procedures, we hit failures which have
> been tracked to this huge /usr partition taking over the 355 MB
> (unformatted) disk. The failure turns out to be because the root
> partition is full and has nowhere to grow.
>
> Now what? We have succeeded in getting Wren VII's mounted
> on external SCSI, so there is no problem with making a copy of the
> entire set of file systems on the 355 if that will help. That is,
> we thought it might be possible to reconstruct /usr. But we seem to
> not even be able to umount /usr because it is always busy (probably
> this pesky errdaemon that runs from there). Is booting from a floppy
> the way to do this?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
This should work, run killall as root. Then perform the re-do.
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