From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 7:12:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zerg.codec.ro (zerg.codec.ro [193.230.240.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9032D37B404 for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 07:12:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from httpd@localhost) by zerg.codec.ro (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g17FAIp21334; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:10:18 +0200 Message-Id: <200202071510.g17FAIp21334@zerg.codec.ro> From: Soso Lolex To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: questions freebsd Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 instalation failure Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:10:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [193.226.6.226] X-Mailer: freemail 0.9.8 X-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 2000) Opera 6.0 [en] X-Organization: CODEC FreeMail Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Soso Lolex wrote: > > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Soso Lolex wrote: > > > > > > > okay, here are more deails: > > > > > > > > I have one disk (Western digital 6.4 Gb) on which i had before > > > > installed FreeBSD 4.5 , 256Mb memory, Duron 700 Mhz; So, when I > > > > tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 I had one DOS partition (FAT32/Win2k) > > > > and I also created a BSD partition 2.8 Gb (/), and a swap > > > > partition of about 150 Mb. It is not possible to run out of disk > > > > space because after some failed installations I choose to instal > > > > only "user" packages, without development packages or X packages, > > > > and the installation process still failed the same. > > > > > > > > So, I personally give up, I simply dont see what is wrong. > > > > > > Nah, don't give up so easily :) > > > > > > What is the *exact* error message you're seeing? > > > > Hmm, I dont remember the *exact* error message but I know that was > > related with /bin directory, something like it cannot copy or > > install /bin from CD (or hardisk if I tried to install it from DOS > > partition) and the error message came up when progress bar was at > > 100%, and all other directories were installed well. > > > > It is possibly that my image is broken... > > You can always try to "test" if the install script of bin/ would > succeed or fail by running manually the commands that sysinstall would > use to install this package. > > * Note: Be careful to NOT miss something from the commands shown below > or you might mess your already installed FreeBSD system. > > If you have another FreeBSD system installed nearby, grab the cdrom > you used for installing, and do the following: > > 1. Mount the installation cdrom somewhere. For instance: > > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt/cdrom > > 2. Make sure you have a bit of free space, to test the bin package > extraction. You can get an approximate measure of the required > space with: > > # du -sk /mnt/cdrom/bin > > 3. Make a temporary directory where you will test the extraction > process. Let's say for example, /var/tmp/test will be the place. > > 4. Change into /mnt/cdrom/bin and run install.sh with DESTDIR of your > environment pointing to the /var/tmp/test directory. > > # cd /mnt/cdrom/bin > # env DESTDIR=/var/tmp/test sh install.sh > > !!! IMPORTANT NOTE !!! > > DO NOT FORGET TO SET EDTDIR=/var/tmp/test OR THE INSTALLATION > SCRIPT WILL OVERWRITE FILES UNDER /. > > If that completes normally, then you know that the files on the cdrom > are OK, and something else is wrong. If that breaks before > completing, then at least you'll know why it failed, and the error > message will probably reveal part of the problem. > > - Giorgos > > thanx, I will try it ______________________________________________________________________ Do you want a free e-mail for life ? Get it at http://www.email.ro/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message