From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 3 21:49:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69471106564A for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:49:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from davidianwalker@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31AE28FC15 for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iahk25 with SMTP id k25so5150947iah.13 for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:49:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=MxWlDrMyLPdVzCZ2c6vOkfLfOV0k9SI8mqMT1NoLj7E=; b=XYZlYnlEshQnTVyBQbFGBvO1T6QGyvu9jq/A5/MtAKvjBkbvrdpn8Ac+jxCdHoGowJ INTJIA7Al6c670/sd26vCJc9s0z1oOrJ5FwYj6PF6uCQ1AcxJUV07+tTtuVicHKwkbXj RpOuZ+/eHdR2h/25s6/M6L4r/oeElq6HL9BFYcLuNbLZDgX+rrjGvZDfLvxyJqeUhEQ2 2ptYVdaJP5e1th2rNpd+AHmF+6VrnB8QaSvwK62/bR7foS8ok0NKg7YvryUMVOlk1CBx Cf9TFtSQDdVfZQimygo/+ATRSbVwuRNj2iIb+QPQ+I62N+mDHhcRie2iNdbN1+gKl/EI NlyQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.87.229 with SMTP id bb5mr2153289igb.33.1330811354526; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:49:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.96.6 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 13:49:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:19:13 +1030 Message-ID: From: David Walker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:49:15 -0000 So of course I can't install source using sysinstall either ... No problem, I'll re-install (reverting a few hours of work) and do it on the install. Of course it works perfectly - I am able to install ports and src from the CD that sysinstall fails on ... As I'm getting used to though, there's more facepalming ... I'll do what I'm accustomed to do ... and partition my drive ... this should be easy. / 1GB swap 1GB /root 1GB /tmp /1GB /usr 50GB etcetera ... FreeBSD can't extract root/.profile from base.txz (or similar) avanothergo or exit ... No worries, it's a bit of dust, avanothergo ... Rinse and repeat x times - so I pull the CD out of the drive and rinse. Looks pretty clean ... try again. FreeBSD can't extract etcetera. I installed from this CD a few hours previously on a brand new (a handful of uses) drive. I remember reading somewhere that 2GB is a recommended size for / (don't ask me where, I've looked) but I've taken this into account with a separate /root right? Let's bump all of them anyway. / 2GB swap 2GB /root 2GB /tmp /2GB /usr 50GB etcetera ... FreeBSD can't extract some file from some where ... ... avanothergo and use the default partitioning scheme, it must be the CD but I'll verify that ... So after an hour or so, success. I'm interested in the reason for this. Surely not inodes? Is this considered a bug? Is there at least one reason why a separate /root slice should not be allowed? If so, I think it would be nice to see an error message that describes the situation. On 04/03/2012, David Walker wrote: > So I installed amd64 9.0 tonight and decided against installing "ports". > I'm at a point now where I'm thinking about adding it and I see sysinstall: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html > Looks easy. > > For some unknown reason sysinstall spits the following: > > Warning: The disc currently in the drive is either not a FreeBSD > disc or it is an older (pre 1.2.5) FreeBSD CD which does not have a > version number on it. Do you wish to use this disc anyway? > > Like any sane person who burned this CD a few hours previously on the > same machine from within FreeBSD and then installed from it shortly > afterwards I click "Yes" ... > > So that doesn't work. > I wonder what would have happened if I had elected to install "ports" > during the initial install ... > > I'm here if anyone's bothered and wants more information. > > Best wishes. >