From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 20:12:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F75106566B; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:12:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C88E8FC0C; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 20:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B665811A; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:12:04 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id Pjc7xt+uYhKe; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:12:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (unknown [76.210.75.5]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BEB58119; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:12:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4D2A1692.7040202@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:12:02 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101227 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Ross References: <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <4D2949C5.2060001@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall ISO images X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:12:05 -0000 On 01/09/11 06:28, Michael Ross wrote: > Am 09.01.2011, 06:38 Uhr, schrieb Nathan Whitehorn > : > >> On 01/08/11 20:18, Michael Ross wrote: > >>> Some quick results from toying around, mainly in the partition editor: >>> >>> - I can't delete slices. Ever. "Device busy" >>> >>> - I can't delete partitions ("Device busy") once they have been >>> accessed, e.g. after interrupting the installation process ("Finished" >>> Ctrl-C "Restart") >> >> Right, you can't delete currently mounted partitions, and partedit >> isn't smart enough to unmount them first. I hadn't thought about this >> problem -- thanks for the report. >> >>> - Sometimes "Finished" shows the "You have cancelled... Restart?"-Dialog >>> right away. Not sure how to reproduce. >> >> That should very much never happen, unless you press "Don't save". I'd >> love to know how you got this to happen, if you manage to reproduce it >> in the future. > > Press "Finished" without having specified ``/'' as a mountpoint on any > partition. > More, once I do this, I can't change the mount point anymore. > Step-by-Step: > 1. Create da0s1, da0s1a. No mount point specified. Select "Finished". > Result: "Abort - you have cancelled... Restart?" Select Restart. > 2. "Edit" mount point on da0s1a to /. Select "Finished". > Result: A error dialog pops up: "mount operation not permitted". > I think I've fixed all these problems (and the ones reported by Bruce Cran and Joel Dahl), as well as adding some anti-foot-shooting measures. Here's a new image, hopefully better: http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-i386-20110109.iso.bz2 -Nathan