Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:44:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problems upgrading to 4.1-RC2 Message-ID: <200007212044.NAA75230@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <806.964209729@cloud.rain.com> from Bill Trost at "Jul 21, 2000 01:02:09 pm"
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Bill Trost wrote:
> A few problems I noticed booting off the floppy and then trying to
> upgrade via the net:
>
> 1. I tried to use "blah.blah.blah:8080" as my HTTP proxy, and it didn't
> work. Tcpdump revealed that my machine was trying to do a name lookup
> for "blah.blah.blah:8080"! In other words, you can't specify a port on
> the ftp proxy like the dialog claims -- it's 3128 or nothing.
Ugh.
> 2. The built-in URL's are all wrong -- they try to look in
> /pub/FreeBSD/releases/, not the /pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ where the
> release candidate actually lives.
Yes, this is due to the way sysinstall handles the FTP stuff. I'm working
on a generic fix for this, but it won't make it into 4.1. However, 4.1
will be under the releases/ directory, so 4.1 will work fine at least. For
now you can manually specify the directory using the specify URL option.
It's ugly, but I am working on fixing it properly.
> 3. Go to the "options" menu from the root menu, try to set the "media
> type", and sysinstall will ultimately panic. Might just remove the
> option to set media type from the options menu.
Hmm, works fine for me, both after install and during an install.
> 4. Going through the normal upgrade path, if you select option 9
> ("Options") on the media select menu, you get the standard option menu.
> "Q"uitting the option menu takes you back to the root menu! From there,
> the upgrade is hosed, as it tries to remount the filesystems, even
> though they are already mounted.
Yeah, IIRC, we don't have any type of stacking mechanism in place to
know where we have been in the past, so this may not be all that easy
to fix.
> 5. No XFree86. I've already mentioned this to John Baldwin.
Hmmm, yeah, it needs to have symlinks in hte FTP directory for XFree86
and the packages. I'll try and get that fixed.
> I've also noticed a few strange kernel panics, all in single user mode
> on the way towards rebooting, but I'm not convinced they weren't just
> part of some mid-upgrade instability.
Haven't seen anything like this.
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