This seems to be an old bug that still exists today as Google resulted in a discussion about a bug in the sysinstall during FreeBSD 4 (can't find it at this right moment though, but i did see it). I seem to be getting the following error right after I start downloading: create/symlink failed, no inodes free It keeps downloading however that error is displayed across the screen. This only happens though when I do the following. 1. Start the installation as normal via CD 3. Configure the disk with FreeBSD sysinstall defaults (/, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr) 2. Media is FTP 3. When attempting to contact the FTP (example: ftp1.freebsd.org) hit escape and then hit Restart so that the installation program restarts (not abort). Now do the same thing over again. Configure disk -> select package(s) -> media and start and at this point it will fail. I can repeat this every single time on multiple systems. I only discovered it after I accidentally mistyped my gateway address. Fix: Completely reboot the computer and then start the installation from beginning seems to be the fix. How-To-Repeat: 1. Start the installation as normal via CD 3. Configure the disk with FreeBSD sysinstall defaults (/, swap, /var, /tmp, /usr) 2. Media is FTP 3. When attempting to contact the FTP (example: ftp1.freebsd.org) hit escape and then hit Restart so that the installation program restarts (not abort). Now do the same thing over again. Configure disk -> select package(s) -> media and start and at this point it will fail.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->qa You're right, this is a known problem. Assign to maintainers.
Responsible Changed From-To: qa->freebsd-qa Canonicalise.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall Over to maintainer(s)
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.