From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 04:43:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4D6106564A; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:43:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D70938FC12; Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:43:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (proxy8.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.13]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/y.out) with ESMTP id o694Wr1Y041670; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:32:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=serpent; d=yahoo-inc.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:content-type:date:message-id: mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=XnGBeNAu3a8mULqt8Ux0JBWvNtjcuojGFD4dlVQlT7EQUUdmes/ciW3JMaOgUoyE From: Sean Bruno To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:32:53 -0700 Message-ID: <1278649973.3102.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: silly, silly sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sbruno@freebsd.org List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:43:11 -0000 Tried out the -current install images from June today on a USB stick. They seem to work fine. I then did something non-standard and partitioned my USB stick and put the i386 and x86_64 images on the same disk. Much hilarity ensued. -- partition 1 houses grub and friends -- partition 2 has i386-current install -- parition 3 has x86_64 install 1. Sysinstall assumes that the files to be installed are on slice/partition 1. In this odd ball case, they were not. I think that sysinstall *could* be made a little smarter, but I am wrong so often that its becoming a pattern. 2. *IF* the network configuration fails due to link down or broken network driver, you never get another chance to DHCP an address. Minor but made me want to go stabby. 3. What the heck am I supposed to do in the "emergency holographic shell" anyway? Can we get that thing removed or some kind of "howto" with it? In my "special" case, I couldn't figure out how to get to the fixit image because sysinstall wasn't aware that it's files were actually on partition 2 or 3. Want me to poke about in sysinstall, is this an easy fix and I shouldn't bother or should I go away with my madness and never return? :-) Sean