Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86151
No space left on device
Last modified: 2007-03-27 00:01:48 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 Description of problem: Kernel: 2.4.18-14 I run "mkbootdisk 2.4.18-14" at command prompt, but I get these error messages: gzip: stdout: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device I determine there's no space left on the floppy disk (100% used). I have several machines here, some I can run mkbootdisk, but some I can't (it produces the same errors as above). what are other alternative ways to do 'mkbootdisk' to write onto different devices or even its hard drive? Can I use one floppy bootdisk for all of my machines if they have the same kernel? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkbootdisk-1.4.8-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mkbootdisk kernel_here 2.gfloppy 3.mkbootdisk kernel_here Actual Results: same errors as above Additional info:
I have a similar problem using RH9 with the latest kernel patch 2.4.20-27.9. It works fine with 2.4.20-20.9, but with ...27.9 I get the error: cp: writing `/tmp/mkbootdisk.gIKbeP/initrd.img': No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device cat: write error: No space left on device Note: it is not the case that my /tmp or other file systems are full.
- U can compile your own smaller kernel and use mkbootdisk with it. - Create iso image using mkbootdisk and burn iso on cdrom U can use one floppy bootdisk for your machines, there is a copy of kernel on the floppy bootdisk. But the kernel must include support for machine hardware.