From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 16:41:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5848516A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 16:41:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BACC643D78 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 16:41:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy-128.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.165]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j44GYjwd026263; Wed, 4 May 2005 17:34:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j44GYjMd049781; Wed, 4 May 2005 17:34:45 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j44GYinE049780; Wed, 4 May 2005 17:34:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: buffy.york.ac.uk: ga9 set sender to gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk using -f From: Gavin Atkinson To: Pete French In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 17:34:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1115224483.49427.9.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk cc: kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RC4 will not install using FTP X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 16:41:35 -0000 On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 12:29 +0100, Pete French wrote: > > I haven't been able to reproduce this yet. I've successfully done an > > FTP install both from an initial floppy boot and from an initial disc1 > > CD boot. So it's not a "totally generic" problem, it might have > > something to do with the pathway you are following through sysinstall. > > Possibly. I had to take a slightly odd path through sysinstall, as I'll > explain below. > > > Was this a brand new install or were you installing over top of a > > pre-existing install? If the latter did you recycle the existing disk > > partitions or have it wipe out everything and re-do them from scratch? > > Old install, I kept the slice layout, but wiped all the partitions and > created new (different) ones. > > Other proble was that the first time through sysinstall it cannot resolve any > named from the nameserver. I then hitt Ctrl-C, go back to the start and > type all the same details in again. The second time round it works fine. > > I dont know if that is likely to affect the install at all ? Could it > be having problems due to having the original partitions already mounted > from the first attempt maybe ? Bingo! Restarting sysinstall always causes this problem. It's a well known problem with several open PRs (see for example bin/38854, bin/42162 and bin/45565 - all dating back to 2002). It's 100% recreateable by restarting sysinstall realatively early in the install procedure, and I've never had it happen without doing so. It's one of these bugs that I keep tripping up on and was always planning to sit down, set up a PXE boot environment and sort it and other sysinstall problems, but can always seem to find other things to do :( Gavin