Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:36:01 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Subject: Re: 9.0-BETA1 installer issues Message-ID: <4E37FD41.4070601@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk> References: <4E37C634.6090002@cran.org.uk>
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On 08/02/11 04:41, Bruce Cran wrote: > I've been trying out 9.0-BETA1: it's a lot easier to install than > previous releases with bsdinstall, but I spotted a few issues: Good! Thanks for checking. > Typo - "Resovler Configuration". > If I leave the resolver window for a while it gets corrupted with: > > Aug 2 10:31:23 dhclient[973]: Bogus domain search list 15: lan, ..... Interesting. It looks like DHCP doesn't like your local setup... > In the documentation installation screen, it should say "At a > minimum..." - the 'a' is missing. Also, there should perhaps be a > semi-colon between "English version" and "this is the original". The > menu also doesn't appear to do anything once you select "OK". The spelling fixes are easy to fix. The documentation issue is more confusing. It should begin running pkg_add, after you press OK, assuming you selected something. Do you have the installer log handy? It will be in /tmp. > The shell menu should perhaps have a newline after "making", to avoid > "configuration" wrapping. > Also, the partitioning screen should maybe have "Continue" instead of > "Exit". These are good points. I'll fix them. > The known issue with the installation not creating /home is still > present in BETA1. > This was caused by a change in behavior of pw(8) in mid-June, which has been reverted in r224535. This unfortunately missed BETA1... -Nathan
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