From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 12 01:13:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17631 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:13:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA17626; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:13:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA18655; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:22:17 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199702120822.JAA18655@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: 2.2-GAMMA install comments To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 09:22:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <11902.855718740@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 11, 97 07:38:41 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 1) if some distribution is selected but missing (e.g. I chose > > "X-developer" but did not have "proflibs" and "info" on my disk), > > then X is not installed. The install program correctly informs me > > Hmmm. Are you really sure that's the cause, or was X *also* just not > installed? The failure to load one distribution shouldn't stop > processing of other distributions unless a genuine hard error was > detected on the media, in which case the whole show stops since > there's no point in going on. this I cannot tell, but afterwards I did a custom install without proflibs and info, and this time X was correctly installed. The media was a CD I burned yesterday. I also tried to install 2.2-G on wd0s1 (498MB) and 3.0-SNAP-... on wd0s2 (498MB) -- It refused to install / on wd0s2 saying something about being unable to have the boot partition there. I don't know if the problem was having root within the first 500MB or what. The curios thing was that even after I repartitioned the disk (withouth rebooting) and shrunk wd0s1 and tried to reinstall, it failed. Seems like once an error of some kind has triggered, it is not reset by subsequent actions. Not that I claim it is easy, was just noticing. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________