Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:04:45 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: John <dingo@coco2.arach.net.au> Cc: bugbusters@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation of 6.2 beta 2 fails Message-ID: <20061016210445.GH24163@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <4533931E.2070804@coco2.arach.net.au> References: <4533931E.2070804@coco2.arach.net.au>
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:11:42PM +0800, John wrote:
> I booted CD1, chose to clobber my working Linux system (use entire
> disk), chose a custom software selection (including pretty much all the
> source, I have 80 Gb to fill) and let 'er rip.
>
> Right now it's complaining, "Unable to get packages/INDEX from selected
> media." and goes on with a highly improbable explanation that the
> packages might not be on the selected media, and that I should fix it.
>
> It's a terrible abuse of English, that.
Not really sure where that went wrong. However, I don't believe that
the installer looks at the INDEX until the base installation is
complete.
> Now surely you folk haven't put together _that_ brummy a CD 1. Besides,
> it does seem to have installed lots, and things like csh are in place.
>
> There aren't any kernel messages (from dmesg) to suggest reading the CD
> was difficult.
>
> But then again, pkg_info says there aren't any packages; I really don't
> know enough about FreeBSD to tell what's wrong.
A base installation of FreeBSD doesn't contain packages, so it's highly
probably that you have a complete base installation.
> The current position is that the installer says my CD is borked, but it
> won't let it out so I can replace it. The only way I can see to go
> forward is to reboot and try something else*
>
> What I think should happen at this point is that the installer should
> allow me to back up and choose a different install medium, whether
> another CD (I mean, crook CDs aren't unknown, even if this one's okay)
> or a different network source.
It should.
> I don't believe it would help me in this instance, but I'd sure feel
> better knowing I could try something else.
>
> ps, it may well be that that image thingie is illegal as it could be
> held to discriminate unfairly against the blind. I think a little
> javascript that produces, say, bugbuster+$(date +%Y%U)@freebsd.org would
> give you a suitable means of filtering out the spam. I think I could
> devise a procmail rule to do it. Or you could put the date part into the
> domain name, with only two or three resolving at any time.
The workaround is pretty clearly indicated in the alt attribute, and I
think that's standard enough.
Anyway, could you please report this to stable@FreeBSD.org where it can
be worked out?
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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