On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:23:20AM +1100, Chris wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Kenneth R Westerback > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:37:40PM -0800, Chris wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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
